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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, agronomics, agronomy, breeding, crop-raising, cultivation, culture, feeding, fertilizing, gardening, geoponics, gleaning, grazing, growing, harvesting, homesteading, hydroponics, landscaping, operating, production, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, threshing, tillage |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land for growing |
| Synonyms: | agrology, agronomics, agronomy, farming, gardening, horticulture, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling, working |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, farming, gardening, raising, tending |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | horticulture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gardening |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, arboriculture, cultivation, farming, floriculture, groundskeeping, viniculture, viticulture |
| Main Entry: | land |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth's surface; ownable property |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract |
| Antonyms: | sea, sky |
| Main Entry: | animal husbandry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding and caring for farm animals |
| Synonyms: | animal culture, animal raising, animal rearing, farming, livestock farming, pasturage, ranching, stock raising |
| Main Entry: | cultivate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop land for growing |
| Synonyms: | breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put in the ground for growing |
| Synonyms: | bury, cover, farm, grow, implant, pitch, pot, raise, scatter, seed, seed down, set out, sow, start, stock, transplant |
| Antonyms: | harvest, reap |
| Main Entry: | plow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig up ground for cultivation |
| Synonyms: | break, break ground, bulldoze, cultivate, farm, furrow, harrow, harvest, list, push, rake, reap, ridge, rush, shove, smash, till, trench, turn, turn over |
| Antonyms: | fill |
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