agronome rare.
(ˈægrəʊnəʊm)
[a. Fr. agronome, ad. Gr. ἀγρονόµος an overseer of lands, f. ἀγρός field, land + -νόµος dispensing, f. νέµ-ειν to dispense. Cf. Fr. astronome.]
= agronomist.
| 1838 Monthly Chron. II. 212 The rule adopted by the South American agronomes. 1881 tr. Nordenskiöld's Voy. Vega II. xi. 60 According to a communication from the agronome. 1945 H. G. Wells Happy Turning vi. 22 The agronomes—there are no farmers in Dreamland—come along and tell us, ‘We can produce all the food.’ |