adj.
a. Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage;
Agricultural ant (Zool.),
n. An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.) [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and Culture. ] The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Agriculture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. [ 1913 Webster ]
The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. apis bee + E. culture. ] Rearing of bees for their honey and wax. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
adj.
adj.
a. Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. arbor tree + cultura. See Culture. ] The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who cultivates trees. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. avis bird + cultura culture. ] (Zool.) Rearing and care of birds. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. crinis hair + cultura. ] Relating to the growth of hair. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. dealing with or comparing two or more cultures;
a. Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to culture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony. ]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Pepe. [ 1913 Webster ]
What the Greeks expressed by their
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
Culture fluid,
Culture medium
v. t.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Having no culture. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not&unr_;) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man. J. C. Shairp [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. domus house + E. culture. See 1st Dome. ] The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [ R. ] R. Park. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. flos, floris, flower + cultura culture. ] The cultivation of flowering plants. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. horticultural. ] Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. hortus garden + cultura culture: cf. F. horticulture. See Yard an inclosure, and Culture. ] The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who practices horticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. in- not + culture: cf. F. inculture. ] Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The artificial cultivation of oysters. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Relating to pisciculture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. piscis a fish + E. culture. ] Fish culture. See under Fish. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who breeds fish. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. pomum fruit + cultura culture. ] (Hort.) The culture of fruit; pomology as an art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Sericeous, and Culture. ] The raising of silkworms. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. silviculture. ] See Sylviculture. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Bacteriol.) A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire; -- called also
n. [ L. stirps, stirpis, stem, stock, race + cultura culture. ] The breeding of special stocks or races. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. sylva, silva, forest + E. culture. ] The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. terra the earth + cultura. ] Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [ R. ] --
n. Want of culture. “Idleness, ill husbandry . . . unculture.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. vinum wine + cultura culture. ] The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to viticulture. [ 1913 Webster ]