SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scientific agriculture mean? 

• SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE (noun)
  The noun SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE has 1 sense:

1. the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production

  Familiarity information: SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

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• SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE (noun)

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Meaning:

The application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

agronomy; scientific agriculture

Hypernyms ("scientific agriculture" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "scientific agriculture"):

agrobiology (the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield)

agrology (science of soils in relation to crops)