HUSBANDRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does husbandry mean? 

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

1. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUSBANDRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

agriculture; farming; husbandry

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

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Meronyms (parts of "husbandry"):

tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)

harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)

Domain member category:

plough; plow; turn (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow)

overcrop; overcultivate (to exhaust by excessive cultivation)

till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)

crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)

feed; fertilise; fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)

ridge (plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip)

disk; harrow (draw a harrow over (land))

hoe (dig with a hoe)

cultivate (foster the growth of)

carry (bear (a crop))

farm; grow; produce; raise (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

reseed (seed again or anew)

inseminate; sow; sow in (place seeds in or on (the ground))

broadcast (sow over a wide area, especially by hand)

seed; sow (place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth)

thrash; thresh (beat the seeds out of a grain)

smut (affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn)

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "husbandry"):

animal husbandry (breeding and caring for farm animals)

arboriculture; tree farming (the tending of and caring for trees)

dairy farming; dairying (the business of a dairy)

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

aquiculture; hydroponics; tank farming (a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients)

mixed farming (growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm)

planting (putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow)

ranching (farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle))

strip cropping (cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion)

subsistence farming (farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing)

truck farming (growing vegetables for the market)

 Context examples 

The Laboratory Animal Shared Resource is responsible for the supply, use, husbandry, and experimental model selection and development of laboratory animals utilized by the research programs at Cancer Center.

(Laboratory Animal Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Laboratory Animal Husbandry Shared Resource provides basic husbandry service as well as technical support services to the Cancer Center research community.

(Laboratory Animal Husbandry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Animal Barrier Shared Resource provides for acquisition and maintenance of both pathogen-free and infected laboratory animals, including immunodeficient strains, while permitting supervised access for investigators, stable husbandry conditions, and individualized daily health care for animals.

(Barrier Animal Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow; that is for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)