S: (n) cash crop (a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco))
S: (n) catch crop (a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season)
S: (n) cover crop (crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure)
S: (n) field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes) "cotton, hay, and grain are field crops"
S: (n) field corn (corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain)
S: (n) cryptogam (formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi)
S: (n) annual ((botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year)
S: (n) biennial ((botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season)
S: (n) perennial ((botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more)
S: (n) escape (a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild)
S: (n) handle, grip, handgrip, hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it) "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
S: (n) stock (the handle end of some implements or tools) "he grabbed the cue by the stock"
S: (n) stock, gunstock (the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun) "the rifle had been fitted with a special stock"