Catch crop. Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch-crop*ping, n.
     Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables.    --L. H. Bailey.
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  catch crop
       n : a quick-growing crop (e.g. lettuce) planted between two
           regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two
           rows of crops in the same season