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equiculture

equiculture noun: the rearing and care of horses.

Noun

equiculture (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The rearing and care of horses.
    • I imagine a corresponding equiculture. The uppermost quarter of the population, always on horseback, uses up the nation's money to employ another quarter of the population to look after its horses.1979, Sven Lindqvist, Land and Power in South America, page 137
    • It has been inconceivable that the Naylors could be “friends” with their farming neighbours, despite the fact that gentry and peasantry were linked in symbiosis by the turning of the seasons, by the economics of the mart, and, especially, equiculture.2014, Richard Pine, The Disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World

Origin of equiculture

From Latin equus (“horse”) + cultura (“cultivation”); stem equus from Proto-Italic *ekwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Questions about equiculture

What does equiculture mean?
Equiculture means the rearing and care of horses.
What part of speech is equiculture?
Equiculture is a noun.

Words near equiculture in the dictionary

  1. equicorrelation
  2. equicorrelations
  3. equicrescent
  4. equicrural
  5. equicrure
  6. equiculture
  7. equid
  8. equideceleration
  9. equidecomposability
  10. equidecomposable
  11. equidense

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