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agricultural

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ag·ri·cul·ture  (gr-klchr)
n.
The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming.
[Middle English, from Latin agrcultra : agr, genitive of ager, field; see agro- in Indo-European roots + cultra, cultivation; see culture.]
agri·cultur·al adj.
agri·cultur·al·ly adv.
agri·cultur·ist, agri·cultur·al·ist n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.agricultural - relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming; "agricultural engineering"; "modern agricultural (or farming) methods"; "agricultural (or farm) equipment"; "an agricultural college"
2.agriculturalagricultural - relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
agrarian, farming
rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
agricultural
adjective farming, country, rural, rustic, agrarian, agronomic, agronomical, agrestic
Translations

agricultural [ægrɪˈkʌltʃərəl] adj → agrícola
agricultural [ægrɪˈkʌltʃərəl] adj → agricole
agricultural [ægrɪˈkʌltʃərəl] adj → landwirtschaftlich;
(show) → Landwirtschafts-
agricultural [ægrɪˈkʌltʃərəl] adj → agricolo/a


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This was followed by a great down-pour of rain, which washed the unfortunate Officer of the Government and the outfit off the face of creation and affected the agricultural heart with joy too deep for utterance.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house.
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