agriculture
noun
the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.
preagricultural
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a word derived from
agriculture.
Example Sentences
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On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages.
From Time Magazine Archive
As preagricultural hunter-gatherers, we humans held niches in ecosystems, and those niches, resource-limited as they always were, had indeed kept our numbers down.
From Time Magazine Archive
