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vegeculture|ˈvɛdʒɪkʌltjʊə(r)| [f. vegetable n. + culture n.] The cultivation of vegetables. Hence vegeˈcultural a.
1917H. A. Day (title) Vegeculture: how to grow vegetables, salads, and herbs. 1962J. D. Clark in Braidwood & Willey Courses toward Urban Life 23 The distribution of the bored stone in central and south-central Africa suggests that it may also sometimes accompany a vegecultural,..even an incipient agricultural, level of economy during later stone age times. 1964S. Cole Prehist. E. Afr. x. 275 Only after the introduction of ironworking do we find evidence of food production... This does not mean that some form of vegeculture did not exist—perhaps based mainly on plants with edible roots or tubers. 1977G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 226 It looks as if there was a greater emphasis on vegetable food and even as if some form of vegeculture may have been practised. |