| 单词 | agricultural |
| 释义 | agricultural (once / 340 pages) adj Something that's agricultural has to do with farming, either growing crops or raising farm animals. Your interest in dairy cattle might lead you to attend an agricultural program in college, or you may decide to go ahead and start your own agricultural business instead. Midwestern wheat farmers are in the agricultural profession, and so are small family farmers who grow heirloom vegetables in Maine. The adjective agricultural comes from the noun agriculture, rooted in the Late Latin agricultura, which combines ager, "a field," and cultura, "cultivation." WORD FAMILYagricultural: agriculturally+/agriculture: agricultural, agricultures, agriculturist/agriculturist: agriculturists USAGE EXAMPLESAgricultural runoff is the main cause of pollution in the oceans; vertical farms produce no runoff. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) That’s the way they do things at Starker Forests, the Philomath timber company founded by Oregon Agricultural College forestry professor T.J. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) In Angola, $64 million frozen by the Swiss authorities was repatriated and earmarked for mine clearance and agricultural development. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming agricultural engineering modern agricultural (or farming) methods agricultural (or farm) equipment an agricultural college 2adj relating to rural matters Syn agrarian, farming rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life |
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