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- 2. An organism distinguished from the animals in that it takes nutrients entirely in liquid solution, rather than in solid form.
- 3. The composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
- 8. The planting, tending, harvesting, and improving of plants.
- 9. An important genus of trees, family Rutaceae, extensively cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas for its fruits, such as the lime, orange, bergamot, lemon, citron, and grapefruit. Native to Asia.
- 11. Broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel derived from recently dead biological material.
- 12. Botanically, the matured ovary of a flower.
- 16. Cultivation of woody plants, particularly those used for decoration and shade.
- 18. A family of plants, including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, and alfalfa. With the aid of symbiotic bacteria, they can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil.
- 21. Pertaining to or having the properties of a medicine.
- 24. A grove of fruit or nut trees.
- 26. All effort directed toward increased knowledge of natural phenomena and the environment and toward the solution of problems in all fields of science. This includes basic and applied research. Much of the agricultural productivity of the United States is directly the result of applying research.
- 27. A geographically-defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by temperature hardiness, or ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone.
- 28. Any place where plants, shrubs, and trees are grown either for transplanting or as grafting stocks.
- 29. Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general.
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- 1. To bring crops to a point at which they will command a price.
- 2. To convert an agricultural commodity into a marketable form by a special series of steps.
- 4. Pertaining to a sense of beauty or to aesthetics.
- 5. The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
- 6. The total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling.
- 7. Anything, which when taken into the body, nourishes the tissues and supplies body heat.
- 10. The edible part of an herbaceous plant.
- 13. The amount of water, hail, sleet, snow, or other moisture received from clouds. Snow is also reported in its equivalent of liquid water.
- 14. The science of agriculture that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including the growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and ornamental shrubs and trees.
- 15. The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field–crop production and soil management.
- 17. Crop grown for its fiber, like cotton and flax.
- 19. The embryo of a plant; also kernels of corn, wheat, etc., which botanically are seed-like fruits as they include the ovary wall.
- 20. To beautify terrain as with plantings of trees, shrubs, and flowering herbs; with ornamental features, such as terraces, rock gardens, bog gardens, pools, walks, drives, etc.
- 22. The science of plants.
- 23. The sciences, arts, and business practices of conserving and managing natural resources on lands designated as forests.
- 25. Any product of the soil. In a narrow sense, the product of a harvest obtained by labor, as distinguished from natural production or wild growth.