Plant vs. Crop — What's the Difference?

Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state.

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place

A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

A person placed in a group as a spy or informer

A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

A shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.

Short for riding crop or hunting crop

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow

A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

Set or place in a particular position

The entire tanned hide of an animal.

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae.

Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.

Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.

Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group

A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory

The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place

The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution

A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time

A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.

A short haircut.

A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.

An earmark on an animal.

A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.

A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.

A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.

The stock of a whip.

(Slang) A scheming trick; a swindle.

A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.

To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.

A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.

To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow

To cut or bite off the tops or ends of

To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation

To cut (hair, for example) very short.

To stock with spawn or fish.

To clip (an animal's ears, for example).

To introduce (an animal) into an area.

To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).

To place or fix in a certain position

To harvest

To deliver (a punch or blow).

To cause to grow or yield a crop.

To fix firmly in the mind; implant

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.

To establish; found

To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

To conceal; hide

(figurative) A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.

The lashing end of a whip.

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

A rocky outcrop.

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

The act of cropping.

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

A short haircut.

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

(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.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

An entire oxhide.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Marijuana.

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

(control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

To place in the ground.

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

To furnish or supply with plants.

(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

To set up; to install; to instate.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Anything cut off or gathered.

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

The sole of the foot.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

To cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; - of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

To yield harvest.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

The yield from plants in a single growing season

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

A collection of people or things appearing together;

To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

The output of something in a season;

To set up; to install; to instate.

The stock or handle of a whip

To perform the act of planting.

A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor;

Cut short;

A living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Prepare for crops;

Something planted secretly for discovery by another;

Yield crops;

An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground;

Feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Fix or set securely or deeply;

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Set up or lay the groundwork for;

Place into a river;

Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive;

Put firmly in the mind;