agriculture

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Science of cultivating

Nouns

1. (art ofgrowing) agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage, culture; aeroculture, aeroponics, agrobiology, agrology, agronomy, agrostology; gardening, horticulture, floriculture, viniculture, vintage, truck gardening, dry farming, grain farming, extensive or intensive cultivation, open-field cultivation, shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn cultivation, terrace cultivation, strip farming, organic farming, monoculture, citriculture; green thumb, growing, raising; aquaculture, fish farming; irrigation (See water); arboriculture, forestry, agroforestry, forestation, reforestation, deforestation, lumbering, logging; agroindustry, agribusiness; landscape gardening; georgics, geoponics; permaculture, organic farming; green revolution; agrichemical, fertilizer, manure, muck, side or top dressing; smudge; insecticide, pesticide; Future Farmers of America, Four-H; growing season.

2. (one who grows) husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, vintager, forester, conservationist; logger, lumberjack; agriculturist, agronomist; gentleman or boutique farmer, country squire; dirt farmer; yeoman, farmer, granger, cultivator, tiller of the soil; sharecropper; plowman, reaper, sower; rustic; woodsman; farmworker, farmhand, migrant worker, bracero, campesino, picker, planter, etc. Informal, hayseed, hick, rube, peasant, [country] bumpkin, clod[hopper]; white-collar or suitcase rancher. See populace.

3. (place for growing) farm, grange; field, plot, paddy, swidden; lawn, garden, flower bed; nursery, greenhouse, hothouse, conservatory, potting shed, orangery; bed, border, seed plot, parterre; plantation, ranch, homestead (See abode); arboretum, orchard, vineyard, vinery; farmland, grassland; collective farm, cooperative, kibbutz, kolkhoz.

4. (farm equipment and buildings) farmhouse, farmstead, grange; farmyard; barn, hovel, lathhouse, granary, grain elevator, hayloft; hayrack; backhoe, baler, binder, colter, combine, crop duster, cultivator, dibble, flail, hoe, harrow, harvester, mattock, mill, pick, pitchfork, plow[share], reaper, rototiller, scythe, sickle, thresher, tiller, tractor, windmill.

5. (result of growing) crop, yield, harvest, product, produce; cash crop, field crop; truck; crop rotation, cover crop; subsistence crop; berry crop; legume; cereal, wheat, alfalfa, barley, corn, soybean, etc. See vegetable.

6. veterinarian (See domestication); school of agriculture. Informal, horse doctor. Slang, cow college.

7. (agricultural deities) fertility god, Persephone, Kore, Dionysus, Demeter, Ceres, Gaea, Pomona, Frey.

Verbs — cultivate, till [the soil], work, prune, fertilize, force; farm, garden; sow, plant, set out, put in, intercrop; reap, harvest, glean, gather, pick, hay, thresh, winnow, bring in the harvest; mow, dress the ground; dibble, hoe, plow, harrow, rake, weed; take root, grow (See vegetable); dust; share-crop; vernalize.

Adjectives — agricultural, agrarian, farm; arable; predial, rural, rustic, country, georgic; horticultural; organic, geoponic.

Phrases — depressions are farm led and farm fed; we have three crops — corn, freight rates, and interest.

Quotations — All taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture (Artaxerxes), A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes (S. J. Perelman), Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God (Thomas Jefferson), The farmers... are the founders of human civilization (Daniel Webster).

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. farming, tillage, cultivation, horticulture; see farming .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

farming, crop-raising, husbandry, cultivation, agronomy, agribusiness. see farm, farming