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单词 agriculture
释义
agriculture
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n

Agriculture describes the practice of growing crops or raising animals. Someone who works as a farmer is in the agriculture industry.
The Latin root of agriculture is agri, or "field," plus cultura, "cultivation." Cultivating a piece of land, or planting and growing food plants on it, is largely what agriculture means. Raising animals for meat or milk also falls under the category of agriculture. If we didn't have agriculture, we'd all be running around the woods, picking berries and trying to shoot things.
WORD FAMILY
agriculture: agricultural, agricultures, agriculturist+/agricultural: agriculturally/agriculturist: agriculturists
USAGE EXAMPLES
The Swiss use it in shops, restaurants and for train travel, he said, and “it is also widely used for automobile purchases and in agriculture.”
Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017)
I first met Rosenberg at an international conference on indoor agriculture held at a theatre in Manhattan.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
From the earliest days of agriculture, farmers discovered various ways to prevent crop yields from declining over time: by restoring nitrogen to their fields.
BBC(Jan 01, 2017)
1n the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
farming, husbandry
animal husbandry
breeding and caring for farm animals
arboriculture, tree farming
the cultivation of tree for the production of timber
dairy farming, dairying
the business of a dairy
gardening, horticulture
the cultivation of plants
aquiculture, hydroponics, tank farming
a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients
mixed farming
growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm
planting
putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow
ranching
farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)
strip cropping
cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion
subsistence farming
farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing
truck farming
growing vegetables for the market
drip culture
a hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing
insemination
the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
landscape gardening, landscaping
working as a landscape gardener
market gardening
the growing of vegetables or flowers for market
floriculture, flower gardening
the cultivation of flowering plants
roundup
the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold
cultivation
(agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
2n a large-scale farming enterprise
Syn|Hyper
agribusiness, factory farm
business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
3n the class of people engaged in growing food
Hyper
class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
Agriculture
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n

WORD FAMILY
Agriculture: Agricultures
USAGE EXAMPLES
Officials say two more horses’ temperatures spiked Monday, and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture expanded the quarantine as a precaution.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump transition team official said on Monday.
Reuters(Jan 02, 2017)
Agriculture disrupts that cycle: we harvest the plants, and eat them.
BBC(Jan 01, 2017)
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
Syn|Hyper
Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, USDA
executive department
a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
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