Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One occupied in cultivating the ground; a husbandman. Also written
agriculturalist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who practices
agriculture , afarmer , agardener . - adjective Of or pertaining to agriculture or agriculturists.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
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Examples
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Now, the instinct of the Peace River agriculturist is vitally the same as that of the railway projector.
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This supports the inference that the agriculturist was a nature worshipper.
A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green
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Another friend of the agriculturist is the Phymata erosa (Fig. 263).
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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In Sec. 4, strike out all after the word, "agriculturist," in 4th line from bottom, and insert, "as well as wagons, teams and drivers, necessary for transporting the provisions purchased or impressed to the place desired."
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, Called Session, at Macon, August, 1864. Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1864
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I was a farmer, an agriculturist, a desk-tied professor, a laboratory slave, interested only in the soil and the increase of the productiveness of the soil.
Chapter 2 2010
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As an agriculturist and horticulturist, I believe that the answer is simple.
2011: The Year of the Vegetable George Ball 2011
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One of Ricci's converts was Xu Guangqi, a Shanghai-born bureaucrat, mathematician, astronomer and agriculturist.
Exhibition Celebrates Early Catholic Missionary in China 2010
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One of Ricci's converts was Xu Guangqi, a Shanghai-born bureaucrat, mathematician, astronomer and agriculturist.
Exhibition Celebrates Early Catholic Missionary in China 2010
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By the end of 2008, Castilian agriculturist Cayo Lara replaced Gaspar as leader, thus bringing to an abrupt end an episode marked by an inexplicable drift towards the centre.
Spain's socialist moment Martyn Richard Jones 2010
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Antoine Augustin Parmentier, the French 18th-century pharmacist and agriculturist, was a champion of the humble spud.
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