Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is engaged in the study of agronomy, or the management of lands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
scientist whose speciality isagronomy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expert in soil management and field-crop production
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Examples
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Joseph Stalin's fraudulent "agronomist" Trofim Lysenko caused harvest failures when Soviet agriculture was ordered to follow his bizarre pseudo-science.
Latest Articles 2010
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The young man with the white hair was a Colombian agronomist who was explaining something about crop production.
Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories 2011
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The field was so sparse that there was "no place for a jack rabbit to hide," said Jim Shroyer , agronomist for Kansas State University.
Drought Caps Kansas Wheat Tom Polansek 2011
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"In our Soviet Union, comrades, people are not born," declared the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko under Stalin.
Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011
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As a result the farmers have built up a sustainable business that as well as offering marketing clout, runs a subsidized store, a credit union, and employs a Cuban agronomist specializing in organic methods.
An Interview with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body SHop 2010
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We had just taken a tour of the camp, led by a vibrant young man in a straw hat named Patrick, of late affectionately called "L'Agronome" or "agronomist" in French.
Uma Viswanathan: New Leadership In Haiti Uma Viswanathan 2011
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Acertified crop adviser and agronomist looks for weeds resistant to glyphosate.
Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers | Impact Lab 2010
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Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name
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We had just taken a tour of the camp, led by a vibrant young man in a straw hat named Patrick, of late affectionately called "L'Agronome" or "agronomist" in French.
Uma Viswanathan: New Leadership In Haiti Uma Viswanathan 2011
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“We could increase yields in sub-Saharan Africa threefold tomorrow with off-the-shelf technology,” says Kenneth Cassman, a well-regarded agronomist who researches potential yields.
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