cultivation

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Crops, Gardening, Plants, Agriculturecultivationcul‧ti‧va‧tion /ˌkʌltəˈveɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] 1 TACthe preparation and use of land for growing crops soil cultivationunder cultivation These fields have been under cultivation (=used for growing crops) for years.2 TACthe planting and growing of plants and crops Terraces for rice cultivation covered the hillsides.cultivation of the cultivation of tobacco 3 DEVELOPthe deliberate development of a particular quality or skillExamples from the Corpuscultivation• The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation.• What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.• Through his cultivation of Boris Yeltsin and United States aid, he kept relations positive.• Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.• Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years.under cultivation• Almost every inch of the land is already under cultivation.cultivation of• The ranch was used mainly for the cultivation of strawberries.• Many parents think that the cultivation of manners in children requires constant nagging.

单词	cultivation
释义	cultivation From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Crops, Gardening, Plants, Agriculturecultivationcul‧ti‧va‧tion /ˌkʌltəˈveɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] 1 TACthe preparation and use of land for growing crops soil cultivationunder cultivation These fields have been under cultivation (=used for growing crops) for years.2 TACthe planting and growing of plants and crops Terraces for rice cultivation covered the hillsides.cultivation of the cultivation of tobacco 3 DEVELOPthe deliberate development of a particular quality or skillExamples from the Corpuscultivation• The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation.• What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.• Through his cultivation of Boris Yeltsin and United States aid, he kept relations positive.• Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.• Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years.under cultivation• Almost every inch of the land is already under cultivation.cultivation of• The ranch was used mainly for the cultivation of strawberries.• Many parents think that the cultivation of manners in children requires constant nagging.
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