agriculture

Definitions

1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
   countable, uncountable
2. The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming.
3. the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.
4. the art and science of farming. Also called tillage. — agriculturist, agriculturalist, n. — agricultural, adj.
   n
5. the branch of geology concerned with the adaptability of land to agriculture, soil quality, etc. — agrogeologist, n.
   n
6. agronomy.
7. the science of management in farming. Also spelled agronomics. — agronomist, n.
8. Rare. useful arts, as agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing.
9. the cultivation of citrus fruits, as lemons, oranges, etc. — citriculturist, n.
   n
10. a cultivator or a person who grows things.
11. Law. the growing of crops and the profits reaped therefrom.

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Examples

“Meronyms: tillage, cropping”

“Near-synonym: husbandry”

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