About The Word Agriculture
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Agriculture
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What's The Definition Of Agriculture?
[n] the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
[n] a large-scale farming enterprise [n] the class of people engaged in growing food [n] the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 Synonyms | Synonyms for Agriculture: agribusiness | Agriculture Department | Department of Agriculture | farming | husbandry Related Terms | Find terms related to Agriculture: Ceres | Cora | corn god | Demeter | Dionysos | Dionysus | farming | fertility god | Flora | forest god | Frey | Gaea | Gaia | husbandry | Kore | Persephassa | Persephone | Pomona | Proserpina | Proserpine | Triptolemos | Triptolemus | vegetation spirit See Also | animal husbandry | aquiculture | arboriculture | business | business enterprise | class | commercial enterprise | cultivation | dairy farming | dairying | executive department | gardening | harvest | harvest time | horticulture | hydroponics | mixed farming | planting | ranching | social class | socio-economic class | strip cropping | subsistence farming | tank farming | tilling | tree farming | truck farming Agriculture In Webster's Dictionary \Ag"ri*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. agricultura; ager
field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See {Acre}
and {Culture}.]
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the
harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live
stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
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