单词 | geoponics |
释义 | geoponicsn. Chiefly with singular agreement. Agriculture, agricultural science; (the title of) a treatise on this subject. In later use also: the practice of growing plants in soil or other solid rooting medium (as opposed to a liquid medium). Cf. hydroponics n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming sciences agriculture1565 georgics1594 geoponics1608 rural science?1750 agricultural science1775 agronomy1796 agronomics1825 agrometeorology1925 agrobiology1930 agroecology1930 agrotechnology1932 agrology1946 agro-ecosystem1949 agriscience1958 green revolution1968 cereology1990 agromechanization2006 the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > treatise or report geoponics1608 orange book1928 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 111 Which kind of fishing fraude, if you would better be instructed in, I must referre you to Tarentinus in his Geoponicks. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria Ded. sig. A5v Of Herbs, and wholesome Sallets, and other plain and useful Parts of Geoponicks. 1730 S. Shuckford Sacred & Profane Hist. World Connected II. vi. 66 They came to guess under what Star..this or that Grain was to be sown and reaped; and so by degrees fixed good Rules for their Geoponics. 1747 J. Wheeler Mod. Druid 124 There are no greater managers than many men of fortune, in all other parts of Geoponics. 1813 Q. Rev. Mar. 47 We may pardon the father of geoponics for his very consistent preference of the vine. 1893 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 3 Erroneous theories of the ‘science of geoponics’. 1963 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 53 383/2 This problem is the outgrowth of sugar beet geoponics. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities (2001) xxviii. 182 Claude nodded through the labored comparison, which he knew to be inspired by the misreading of an outdated treatise on geoponics that he dusted every Monday. 2009 A. A. Bolonkin in V. Badescu Mars xxiii. 615 Hydroponics usually requires a greater technical knowledge than geoponics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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