| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming, crop production |
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agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, tillage |
| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [The economy or management of plants] Agriculture. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-nouns
agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture., husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor, agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist; Triptolemus., field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; greenhouse, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm (abode).
-verbs
cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].
-adjectives
agricultural, agrarian, agrestic., arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.
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| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, farming, gardening, raising, tending |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | farming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, agronomics, agronomy, breeding, crop-raising, cultivation, culture, feeding, fertilizing, gardening, geoponics, gleaning, grazing, growing, harvesting, homesteading, hydroponics, landscaping, operating, production, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, threshing, tillage |
| Main Entry: | horticulture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gardening |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, arboriculture, cultivation, farming, floriculture, groundskeeping, viniculture, viticulture |
| Main Entry: | husbandry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, land management, tillage |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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| Concept: | [The economy or management of animals] Husbandry. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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-nouns
husbandry, taming; circuration, zoohygiantics; domestication, domesticity; manege, veterinary art; farriery; breeding, pisciculture., menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, zoo; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond., [Destruction of animals] phthisozoics (killing) [more]., neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer, breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon., cage (prison); hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold (inclosure).
-verbs
tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle (restrain).
-adjectives
pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
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