单词 | vegeculture |
释义 | vegeculturen. The cultivation of vegetables (vegetable n. 3); (also) the cultivation of plants, esp. root crops, propagated by vegetative means. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > vegetables or pot-herbs vegeculture1837 olericulture1886 1837 Hort. Reg. 1 Oct. 373 Having long been a fellow laborer in the great field of vege-culture, I respectfully address a few lines to your favourable consideration. 1917 H. A. Day (title) Vegeculture: how to grow vegetables, salads, and herbs. 1964 S. Cole Prehist. E. Afr. x. 275 Only after the introduction of ironworking do we find evidence of food production... This does not mean that some form of vegeculture did not exist—perhaps based mainly on plants with edible roots or tubers. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 226 It looks as if there was a greater emphasis on vegetable food and even as if some form of vegeculture may have been practised. 1992 F. Hole in S. Jones et al. Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. ix. 375/1 Cultivation of this kind generally involves many more species than seed-crop agriculture, making vegeculture ecologically more stable. 2009 S. Astyk & A. Newton Nation of Farmers iii. 129 Vegeculture has several advantages over grain culture for small-scale growers. Derivatives vegeˈcultural adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [adjective] > cultivation of vegetables vegecultural1839 1839 Farmers' Reg. 30 Nov. 684/1 Boring for fresh water, is the only desideratum for the vegecultural prosperity of these arid calcareous islands. 1962 J. D. Clark in R. J. Braidwood & G. R. Willey Courses toward Urban Life 23 The distribution of the bored stone in central and south-central Africa suggests that it may also sometimes accompany a vegecultural,..even an incipient agricultural, level of economy during later stone age times. 2003 D. J. McConnell Forest Farms of Kandy viii. 401 Vegecultural produce—leaves, roots, soft tissue—bequeaths little archeological record. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1837 |
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