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AGRICULTURAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to farming or agriculture
Example:
farming communities
Synonyms:
agrarian; agricultural; farming
Classified under:
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming
Example:
an agricultural college
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
agriculture (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Context examples:
A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production or devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.
(Farm, NCI Thesaurus)
As well as fighting disease and injury in humans, scientists could harness this technique to control plant cells and reverse environmental and agricultural issues, making plants more resilient to disease and pests.
(Cells Programmed Like Computers to Fight Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The 60,000 newly discovered structures include raised highways, urban centers with sidewalks, homes, terraces, industrial-sized agricultural fields, irrigation canals, ceremonial centers, a 30-meter high pyramid, fortresses and moats.
(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)
The filtered water was not safe to drink, but was usable for agricultural irrigation and household chores.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
In coordination with the volcano studies, the agency's C-20A gathered data over Amazonian forests in Peru, agricultural sites in Chile and glaciers on the Chilean/Argentinian border.
(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)
Increasing native predatory birds in agricultural areas can control insect pests that damage crops, and potentially reduce pesticide use.
(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)
Over-fertilization of agricultural fields is a growing environmental problem.
(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)
"It's hard to imagine any other agricultural sector being able to stay in business with such consistently high losses."
(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)
He discovered a bread-and-butter field in the agricultural weeklies and trade journals, though among the religious weeklies he found he could easily starve.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
