| 单词 | husbandry |
| 释义 | husbandry (once / 3053 pages) n Husbandry has nothing to do with being a husband, and a lot to do with being a farmer. If you cultivate the land or breed animals, you are practicing husbandry. Long before husbands were hen-pecked guys who cut the grass on weekends and played with the kiddies after school, they were robust men of the Earth — farmers, in other words. That meaning died out, but its current meaning survives as a remnant of it. Today, you most often hear of "crop husbandry", which refers to raising crops; however, if you practice toad husbandry — you must be raising toads. WORD FAMILYhusbandry: husbandries USAGE EXAMPLESThe culprit, instead, was poor husbandry: ‘‘poor nutrition, inadequate veterinary care and lack of fly control.’’ New York Times(Jan 06, 2016) Urban agriculture also can involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, urban beekeeping and horticulture. Washington Times(Nov 19, 2016) Cutting and preparing herbs for drying is one of the simplest acts of garden husbandry. Washington Post(Nov 15, 2016) n the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock Syn|Hypo|Hyper agriculture, farming animal husbandry breeding and caring for farm animals arboriculture, tree farmingthe cultivation of tree for the production of timber dairy farming, dairyingthe business of a dairy gardening, horticulturethe cultivation of plants aquiculture, hydroponics, tank farminga technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients mixed farminggrowing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm plantingputting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow ranchingfarming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) strip croppingcultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion subsistence farmingfarming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing truck farminggrowing vegetables for the market drip culturea hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing inseminationthe act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) landscape gardening, landscapingworking as a landscape gardener market gardeningthe growing of vegetables or flowers for market floriculture, flower gardeningthe cultivation of flowering plants roundupthe activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold cultivation (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) |
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