specialty crop (English, noun)
expansion: specialty crop (plural specialty crops)
Senses:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Any of various crops cultivated for, or managed and gathered for, human use (in food, personal hygiene, medicine, or decoration) rather than as animal feed, fodder, or forage.
tags: broadly
idiomatic
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Any of a category of human-use crops that include "fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture)"; "eligible plants must be cultivated or managed and used by people for food, medicinal purposes, and/or aesthetic gratification to be considered specialty crops."
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see specialty, crop: Any crop that requires some sort of technical specialization to grow (this sense exists but is largely meaningless and useless to initiates in agriculture).
Forms:
form: specialty crops
tags: plural