What does Agricultural mean?

Definitions for Agricultural
agri·cul·tur·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. agriculturaladjective

    relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming

    "agricultural engineering"; "modern agricultural (or farming) methods"; "agricultural (or farm) equipment"; "an agricultural college"

  2. agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)adjective

    relating to rural matters

    "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

Wiktionary

  1. agriculturaladjective

    Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, et cetera.

Wikipedia

  1. agricultural

    Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture. The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials (such as rubber). Food classes include cereals (grains), vegetables, fruits, cooking oils, meat, milk, eggs, and fungi. Over one-third of the world's workers are employed in agriculture, second only to the service sector, although in recent decades, the global trend of a decreasing number of agricultural workers continues, especially in developing countries, where smallholding is being overtaken by industrial agriculture and mechanization that brings an enormous crop yield increase. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological developments have sharply increased crop yields, but cause ecological and environmental damage. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare and environmental damage. Environmental issues include contributions to global warming, depletion of aquifers, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and other agricultural pollution. Agriculture is both a cause of and sensitive to environmental degradation, such as biodiversity loss, desertification, soil degradation, and global warming, all of which can cause decreases in crop yield. Genetically modified organisms are widely used, although some are banned in certain countries.

ChatGPT

  1. agricultural

    Agricultural refers to everything related to cultivating land, raising crops, and the rearing of animals for food, wool, and other products. It involves practices and activities for the purpose of farming, including irrigation, crop rotation, fertilizing, and pest control among others. It also can describe anything related to or associated with farming and farm life.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Agriculturaladjective

    of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc

Editors Contribution

  1. agricultural

    Relating to agriculture or farming.

    Agricultural products normally are produced on a farm.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agricultural' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2631

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agricultural' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2020

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agricultural' in Adjectives Frequency: #333

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Agricultural in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Agricultural in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Agricultural in a Sentence

  1. Pedro Sanchez:

    We are an administration that wants to maintain the best possible transatlantic relations...but my responsibility as prime minister is to defend the agricultural sector in the face of any attempt to railroad us with tariffs.

  2. Manveer Singh:

    In the past, when Indian agricultural workers have protested for fair prices and working conditions, Union Seminary has responded with violent crackdowns that include documented torture, human rights abuses, and extrajudicial killings, it is critical that, in this moment of peaceful protest, we keep our eyes trained on India's response, and ensure that they do not again resort to repressive tactics as a way to thwart free speech and protest.

  3. Quentin Hart:

    Iowa is an agricultural base, and I always tell people, we don't just feed our communities, we feed the entire world.

  4. Sonny Perdue:

    As I've often said, if we're going to feed 10 billion people by 2050, farmers worldwide need all the tools and technologies at our disposal, in addition to the immediate effect of slowing the development of Vietnamese agricultural production, there's the very real risk that Vietnam's farmers will turn to unregulated, illegal chemical products in place of glyphosate.

  5. Tarik Benmarhnia:

    All these cities like Bakersfield and Visalia are in a valley near the forests that are seeing big fires. There’s also intense agricultural and industrial work there, so they unfortunately have all the worst conditions for air pollution.

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