AGRONOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agronomy mean? 

• AGRONOMY (noun)
  The noun AGRONOMY has 1 sense:

1. the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production

  Familiarity information: AGRONOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGRONOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

agronomy; scientific agriculture

Hypernyms ("agronomy" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "agronomy"):

agrobiology (the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield)

agrology (science of soils in relation to crops)

Derivation:

agronomic; agronomical (of or relating to or promoting agronomy)

agronomist (an expert in soil management and field-crop production)