agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics†;
tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture,
arboriculture†, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.
husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor†,
agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil,
woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron†, viticulturist;
Triptolemus.
field, meadow, garden; botanic garden†, winter garden, ornamental
garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden;
nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot;
grassplot†, grassplat†, lawn; park &c (pleasure ground) 840; parterre,
shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery†, pinetum†, orchard;
vineyard, vinery; orangery†; farm &c (abode) 189.
V. cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut;
manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow,
harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].
Adj. agricultural, agrarian, agrestic†.
arable, predial†, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.