| 单词 | shifting cultivator |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshifting cultivator shifting cultivator n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation > one who practises Virgilian1731 fallowist1786 shifting cultivator1945 monoculturist1973 swiddener1975 1945 K. J. Pelzar Pioneer Settlement in Asiatic Tropics ii. 16 The shifting cultivator does not use the same piece of land every year; instead, he kills or cuts down at regular intervals—every year, every other year, or every third year—the trees of a small forest patch. 1979 Nature 16 Aug. 533/1 Shifting cultivators fell and burn forest land, then plant food crops and raise animals and later move on when soil fertility drops. < as lemmas |
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