agriculture

Roget-categorie 371

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#371. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture

zelfstandig naamwoord

agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming — georgics, geoponics^† — tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage — horticulture, arboriculture^†, floriculture — landscape gardening — viticulture.
husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist — agricultor^†, agriculturist — yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman — granger, habitat, vigneron^†, viticulturist — Triptolemus.
field, meadow, garden — botanic garden^†, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden — nursery — green house, hot house — conservatory, bed, border, seed plot — grassplot^†, grassplat^†, lawn — park etc. (pleasure ground) 840 — parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery^†, pinetum^†, orchard — vineyard, vinery — orangery^† — farm etc. (abode) 189.

werkwoord

cultivate — till the soil — farm, garden — sow, plant — reap, mow, cut — manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top — backset [U.S.].

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

agricultural, agrarian, agrestic^†.
arable, predial^†, rural, rustic, country — horticultural.

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