| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming, crop production |
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agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, tillage |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land for growing |
Synonyms: |
agrology, agronomics, agronomy, farming, gardening, horticulture, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling, working |
| 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: | field |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open land that can be cultivated |
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acreage, cropland, enclosure, farmland, garden, glebe, grassland, green, ground, lea, mead, meadow, moorland, pasture, patch, plot, ranchland, range, terrain, territory, tillage, tract, vineyard |
| Main Entry: | land |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth's surface; ownable property |
Synonyms: |
acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract |
Antonyms: |
sea, sky |
| Main Entry: | gardening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horticulture |
Synonyms: |
cultivation, floriculture, groundskeeping, growing, landscaping, planting, tillage, truck farming |
| Main Entry: | husbandry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, land management, tillage |
| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Land. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
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-nouns
land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma., continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory (projection); highland (height)., coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium , alluvion; anicon., soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag., acres; real estate (property); landsman.
-verbs
land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark.
-adjectives
earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian; alluvial; terrene (world); landed, predial, territorial; geophilous; repicolous.
-adverbs
ashore; on shore, on land.
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| Concept: | [The economy or management of animals] Husbandry. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
Synonyms: |
-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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