agriculture
agriculture
nounDefinition of AGRICULTURE
the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock <the forest was cut down, and the land given over to agriculture>
Related Words cultivation, culture, farmwork, gardening, horticulture, tillage; agribusiness, agroecology, agronomy; agroforestry, arboriculture, pomology; aquaculture (also aquiculture), hydroponics; animal husbandry, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism; sharecropping
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