Crop better sliced loves getting eaten (8)
I believe the answer is:
beetroot
'crop' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both plants as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'better sliced loves getting eaten' is the wordplay.
'sliced' indicates an anagram.
'loves getting' becomes 'oo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eaten' indicates putting letters inside.
'better' with letters rearranged gives 'beetrt'.
'beetrt' going around 'oo' is 'BEETROOT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for beetroot that I've seen before include "plant" , "Vegetable cooked or used in salads and pickles" , "one to get pickled" , "vegetable's produced" , "salad ingredient" .)