agronomy
(əˈgrɒnəmɪ)
[mod. f. assumed Gr. *ἀγρονοµία n. of state, f. ἀγρονόµος: see agronome, and cf. οἰκονοµία. The Fr. agronomie may be earlier.]
The management of land, rural economy, husbandry.
| 1814 Sch. Good Living 196 Equally skilled in agronomy and gastronomy, in the cultivation of the field or in the adaptation of its produce. 1881 Rodwell in Nature XXIV. 32 The..papers communicated to the section of Agronomy related..to the..agriculture of Algiers. |