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graniculture

graniculture noun: wheat growing.

Noun

graniculture (uncountable)

  1. Wheat growing.
    • The industries of the Sacramento basin include mining, smelting, lumbering, dairying, grazing, orchard farming, graniculture, sugar manufacture, and fishing.1912, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Serial Set
    • He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture. If the rains were more abundant we should have rich pastures, plenty of manure, and a totally different agrarian...1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, volume 20

Examples of graniculture in a sentence

  • He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture.1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, volume 20:
  • Euhemerists who believed that Ceres was deified for having taught graniculture to grateful Greeks were now informed that this event had taken place in 1030 B.C.1976, K. K. Ruthven, Myth:

Origin of graniculture

From Italian granicoltura.

Questions about graniculture

What does graniculture mean?
Graniculture means wheat growing.
How do you use graniculture in a sentence?
He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture.
What part of speech is graniculture?
Graniculture is a noun.

Words near graniculture in the dictionary

  1. granges
  2. Grangetown
  3. Grangeville
  4. Granholm
  5. Granholms
  6. graniculture
  7. Granicus
  8. Granier
  9. Graniers
  10. graniferous
  11. graniform

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