geoponics

[jee-uh-pon-iks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the art or science of agriculture.

2. gardening or farming in soil.

geoponics

/ ˌdʒiːəʊˈpɒnɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the science of agriculture

Word History and Origins

Origin of geoponics¹

First recorded in 1600–10; geoponic, -ics

Example Sentences

I am aware that Seneca, living a few years after him, invidiously objects that he was more careful of his language than of his doctrine, and that Columella quotes him charily,—that the collector of the "Geoponics" ignores him, and that Tull gives him clumsy raillery; but I have yet to see in what respect his system falls short of Columella, or how it differs materially, except in fulness, from the teachings of Crescenzi, who wrote a thousand years and more later.

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Indoors or out, growing plants in water permits far more intensive cultivation than geoponics, or earth gardening.

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On the other hand, the soil is so wonderfully rich and fertile that the study of geoponics and artificial manuring was never thought essential.

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Associated words: agronomy, agronomist, agronomics, agronomic, agricultre, agricultral, agriculturist, georgics, geoponics, escheat, arable, inarable, agrarian, agrarianism, agrarianize, topography, tilth, terrain, terrene, till, geoscopy, geoponic. land, v. disembark, debark; capture. landing, n. disembarkation, debarkation; wharf, dock, quay; capture. landlord, n. host, hotel-keeper, inn-keeper, Boniface; owner, proprietor.

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The art of agriculture had amused the leisure, and exercised the pens, of the best and wisest of the ancients; and their chosen precepts are comprised in the twenty books of the Geoponics of Constantine.

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