agronomy
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- noun
- /əˈɡrɒnəmi/
- Specialized
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agronomía
- With almost 13,000 members, the American Society of Agronomy is the largest society of all 20 in the survey.
- Agronomy Journal
- Society of Agronomy
- American Society of Agronomy
Let's do astronomy and agronomy and agriculture and physics and chemistry and change the world.
- Let's do astronomy and agronomy and agriculture and physics and chemistry and change the world.
- Wendell Berry described our you know, our great agronomy philosopher described in Industrial Cattle and Hog Operations.
Examples
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Bill was an agronomy expert who helped farmers improve their crop yields.
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Bill was an agronomy expert who had been helping me with my garden.
Fiction book (2001) -
I was already practicing open source myself in agronomy, sharing my experience and my observations with the others.
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Other training programs will be in agronomy, soil sciences, economics, and business.
Academic text (2008) -
Don Wetterauer and Randy Killorn are with Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy.
Academic text (1996) -
In her studies of agronomy, she learned how to manage soil health for better harvests.
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He applied principles of agronomy to maximize the efficiency of his small vegetable farm.
Synonyms
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4.2
The study of farming, including growing crops and raising animals
Farming using knowledge about soil and plants to grow crops better
The study of soil to grow crops
The study and use of science and technology to make farming, crops, and animals better
How Scientific
Surface Forms
Morphology
agronomy = agriculture (opaque) = agro + nomy
The term 'agronomy' is derived from Greek roots, but the specific scientific meaning is not directly inferable from the components without specialized knowledge.
Etymology
Agronomy comes from Greek parts agro- meaning 'field' and -nomy meaning 'management' or 'rule', the same ending you see in economy. So agronomy is like 'managing the fields', which is why it means the science of soil and crop production.