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n. A crop raised for human consumption, such as wheat or rice.
Usage examples of "food crop".
Behind them lay the citadel, the food crop fields, the dwellings, the nondenominational chapel, the service and entertainment center.
It became a food crop here during the last war when food was in short supply.
But I would provide Event Horizon with a human chemistry compatible food crop which will thrive in days that last four Earth months.
This leads to resource competition for any food crop such as oats or rice and it is believed that they will be only minor sources for biological oils.
They're very high in proteins, and would be a very good food crop for arid lands, since they get their nutrients from air.
One possibility existed-coming up with an oilseed plant that could be refined to approximate synthetic fuels-but that required more land, reduced food crop yields, and demanded a refining technology which would require metals and power.
Others believe it had something to do with cheating involving a load of potatoes from Basweath, potatoes being the staple food crop and therefore a matter of some gravity among the Tiloeans.
The effects can be sufficiently debilitating to incapacitate 80 percent of a workforce, with such consequences as preventing harvesting of a food crop, thus rendering a population vulnerable to all of the opportunistic threats that come with malnutrition and an impaired immune system, such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, dysentery, and typhoid fever.
They looked like a food crop, ripely edible -- though probably not to humans.
It's bad enough when every decent food crop on the planet is licensed.