A semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also secreted from the esophagus of flamingos and some penguins.

(US) A vegetable crop grown by truck farming.

(geology, intransitive) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. / (intransitive) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear.

A kind of cover crop planted near a primary crop in order to prevent the growth of weeds in that area.

The use of trap crops to reduce damage from agricultural pests.

A plant that is planted in order to attract agricultural pests away from nearby crops.

(ecology, agriculture) The total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.

simple past tense and past participle of alley crop

present participle of alley crop

A crop that is cultivated in this manner.