Crossword clues for agronomy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agronomy \A*gron"o*my\, n. [Gr. ? rural; as a noun, an overseer of the public lands; ? field + ? usage, ? to deal out, manage: cf. F. agronomie.] The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of land management for crop production," 1814, from French agronomie, from Greek agronomos "overseer of land," from agros "field" (see acre) + -nomos "law or custom, administering," related to nemein "manage" (see numismatic). Related: Agronomist; agronomic.
Wiktionary
n. The science of utilizing plants, animals and soils for food, fuel, feed, and fiber and more. To do this effectively and sustainably, agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, animal sciences and soil science.
WordNet
n. the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production [syn: scientific agriculture]
Wikipedia
Agronomy (Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation. Agronomy has come to encompass work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. It is the application of a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry, economics, ecology, earth science, and genetics. Agronomists of today are involved with many issues, including producing food, creating healthier food, managing the environmental impact of agriculture, and extracting energy from plants. Agronomists often specialise in areas such as crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, plant physiology, soil classification, soil fertility, weed control, and insect and pest control.
Usage examples of "agronomy".
With a crash course in agronomy, they could keep the livestock and the land in good shape until the farmers arrived.
He was raising crops when I found him, but when I left, he had changed his agronomy to soldiers, and now raises troops.
The first two kilometres above the coves were terraced like an ancient hill farm, planted with flowering bushes and orchards tended by agronomy servitors.
He was receiving didactic courses from Ruth Hilton, who said he was absorbing the agronomy data at a satisfactory rate, and would make a promising farmer one day.
Draka agronomy and biology are excellent, and continual research is done by the League and the Institutes on the development of improved strains of plant and animal, and on pest control.
The Agronomy and Domestic Maintenance divisions wanted to keep all the buildings in one neat and tidy strip.
Kennedy helped us get advice from some Earthside agronomy station to set it up and helped get clearance for the first pair too.
His popularity might have been because he taught in an informal manner, often relating anecdotes and digressing into such topics as astronomy, meteorology, geology, biology, and agronomy, even balloon navigation and the use of artillery.
On the one minisled brought along, Emily Boll flew between the agronomy survey and the control tower, correlating data.
On the one minisled brought along, Emily Boll flew between the agronomy survey and the control tower, correlating data.
If they should prove sufficient to do the work of dung beetles and flies on our Terran-style detritus, agronomy will be off to a good start.
The agronomy research dome covered a patch of countryside which was the England they knew from history books: green meadows flecked with buttercups and daisies, rambling hawthorn hedges enclosing shaggy paddocks, small woods of ash, pine, and silver birch lying along gentle valleys, giant horse chestnuts and beeches dotted across acres of parkland.
When he went on to explain that research was a part of the Agronomy Department, improving on nature wherever possible in sweetness texture, or size, he led them outside the controlled-climate units.