Harvest or crop?

[Cisco795]

Harvest or crop?
Happy new year all!

Teachers, I`ve always had trouble distinguishing these two words, therefore I don`t feel confident when selecting either one in a everyday conversation, what would be the difference between the two of them?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

God bless.
Cisco.
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[Jamie (K)]

A crop is usually of one thing, such as a crop of wheat, a crop of bananas, or even a crop of students.

A harvest can consist of one or more crops, so the harvest can consist of a crop of corn, beets, potatoes and anything else that grows on a farm or in a region or country. (Plus, we can't harvest students; it sounds like genocide.)

Also, a harvest has already been brought in from the field or orchard, whereas we call something a crop as soon as it's planted. ("We lost the whole bean crop due to the flood.") This is paradoxical, because the verb "crop" means to cut.

[Cisco795]

What about reap?
I appologize this word wasn`t included in the initial question.

Thanks for your help Jamie (K).
God bless.
Cisco.
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Please, always correct me if I have made any kind of mistakes in my posts.

[Jamie (K)]

Reap is a verb that means to harvest a crop.