agriculture
noun
the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.
agriculturally
-
a word derived from
agriculture.
Example Sentences
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The world’s endowment of hydrocarbons is all but limitless, including unimaginable quantities of methane hydrates, not to mention that hydrocarbons can also be grown agriculturally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Valadao represents an agriculturally rich swath of the Central Valley, home to acres of almond farms and lemon groves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
How I understand it, agriculturally, the dairy farming community was struggling in the Great Depression and the governor of Wisconsin mandated that every meal in a restaurant had to have dairy.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2024
But will the good times for Santa Clara County — once known as the agriculturally dominated “Valley of Heart’s Delight” — continue to roll?
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
