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English noun: agriculture | |||
| 1. | agriculture (act) a large-scale farming enterprise | ||
| Synonyms | agribusiness, factory farm | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
| 2. | agriculture (act) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | ||
| Synonyms | farming, husbandry | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cultivation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | animal husbandry, aquiculture, arboriculture, dairy farming, dairying, gardening, horticulture, hydroponics, mixed farming, planting, ranching, strip cropping, subsistence farming, tank farming, tree farming, truck farming | ||
| Part holonym | harvest, harvest time, tilling | ||
| Domain category members | broadcast, carry, crop, cultivate, cultivate, cultivation, disk, farm, feed, fertilise, fertilize, grow, harrow, hoe, inseminate, overcrop, overcultivate, plough, plow, produce, raise, reseed, ridge, seed, smut, sow, sow, sow in, thrash, thresh, till, turn, work | ||
| 3. | Agriculture (group) the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 | ||
| Synonyms | Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, USDA | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | executive department | ||
| 4. | agriculture (group) the class of people engaged in growing food | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
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