green crop

Noun

 * 1)  A vegetable crop, as opposed to a cereal crop; a crop which has green leaves when harvested
 * 2) * 1794 Bryce Johnson General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dumfries (London: T. Wright) pp.20-21:
 * After opening from pasture, two crops of oats; one of any green crop, as peas or beans in broad cast, or potatoes or turnips in drills, all with sufficient dunging; one of barley in broad cast, sown down with rye-grass and clover seeds ; two in hay, and four in pasture. This rotation is completed in ten years. Many leave out the green crop, which reduces the rotation to nine years.

Antonyms

 * white crop