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pluviculture, n. joc.|ˈpluːvɪkʌltjʊə(r), -tʃə(r)|
[f. L. pluvi-a rain + culture n., after agriculture, etc.]
The art or science of rain-making; the production and implementation of schemes for inducing rain.
1925D. S. Jordan in Science 24 July 81/2 The modern diversions of pluviculture, chiropractics and hormonism are everywhere treated with respect. Of these none can be more scientific than is pluviculture. 1926W. J. Humphreys Rain Making p. vii, What Dr. David Starr Jordan has happily tagged ‘pluviculture’—the growing and marketing of rain-making schemes, a never-failing drought crop. 1980C. C. Spence (title) The rainmakers: American ‘pluviculture’ to World War II. 1981Nature 23 Apr. 654/3 Interest in pluviculture is revived whenever a drought occurs.
Hence pluviˈculturist n., one who claims to be able to induce rain by scientific means.
1925Science 24 July 82/1 The pluviculturist has next to build a modest shack or to set up a tent for his chemical operations. 1981Nature 23 Apr. 654/2 The pluviculturists depended on occasional coincidences with the occurrence of natural precipitation to demonstrate the viability of their rainmaking operations. |