Crop vs Farmaceutical - What's the difference?
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A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The lashing end of a whip
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
A rocky outcrop.
The act of .
A short haircut.
(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
* XIX c. , George MacDonald, The Early Bird :
* 1892 , , "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
(archaic, or, dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
* Bible, Ezekiel xvii. 22
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
To yield harvest.
To cause to bear a crop.
(pharmacology, medicine) A medically valuable compound produced from modified agricultural crops or animals (usually through biotechnology).
* {{quote-journal, year=2002, month=Spring, author=ETC Group, title=Genetic Pollution in Mexico's Center of Maize Diversity, work=Backgrounder, volume=8, issue=2
, passage=Of course industry assures us that biotech's "farmaceuticals " would never be allowed to grow in proximity to related plants and wild relatives, and that measures will be taken to mitigate the spread of transgenes from pharma crops and biofortified plants.}}
As nouns the difference between crop and farmaceutical
is that crop is a plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose while farmaceutical is (pharmacology|medicine) a medically valuable compound produced from modified agricultural crops or animals (usually through biotechnology).As a verb crop
is to remove the top end of something, especially a plant.As an adjective farmaceutical is
(pharmacology|medicine) of or pertaining to farmaceuticals.crop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crop, croppe, from (etyl) crop, cropp, .Noun
(en noun)- a crop of ideas
- A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
- Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
- Day-long she had worked almost without rest,
- And had filled every one of their gibbous crops ;
- The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop .
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (harvest) harvest, yield * (whip used on horses) hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat * (sense, animal's) craw (in birds)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.Verb
(cropp)- I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
- to crop a field
Derived terms
* outcrop * crop upSee also
* * *Anagrams
* *farmaceutical
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Noun
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