agro- 或 agri- 或 agr-
pref.（前缀）
语源
派生
agro-
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Field; soil:
农田；土壤：
agrology.
土壤学 - Agriculture:
农业：
agroindustrial.
工农业的
语源
- From Greek agros [field] * see agro-
源自 希腊语 agros [田地] *参见 agro-
派生
agro-
- Important derivatives are: acre,pilgrim,agro-
重要派生词为： acre,pilgrim,agro- - Field.
土壤. - Probably a derivative ofag- , “to drive.”
可能为ag-的派生词, “驱，赶.” - acre , from Old English æcer , field, acre, from Germanic *akraz .
acre , 源自 古英语 æcer , 土壤, 土地, 源自 日耳曼语 *akraz . - agrarian ; agriculture , peregrine , ( pilgrim ), from Latin ager (genitive agrī ), earlier *agros , district, property, field.
agrarian ; agriculture , peregrine , ( pilgrim ), 源自 拉丁语 ager （所有格 agrī ), 较早的 *agros , 行政地区, 地产, 土地. - agria , agro- ; ( agrostology ), onager , stavesacre , from Greek agros , field, and agrios , wild.
agria , agro- ; ( agrostology ), onager , stavesacre , 源自 希腊语 agros , 田野, 和 agrios , 野生的.
语源
- In Pokornyaĝ- 4.
波科尔尼aĝ- 4.
agro-
combining form
denoting fields, soil, or agriculture
⇒
agronomy
Origin
from Greek agros fieldagro-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “field,” “soil,” “crop production,” used in the formation of compound words:
agronomy.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of agrós tilled land. See acre
Related Words
- agr-
- agrobacteria
- agrobiology
- agrobusiness
- agrochemical
- agrology
agro-a word element meaning 'soil', 'field', or 'agriculture', as in agrology, agronomy.
[Greek, combining form of agros field]agro-
combining form
agrochemical
2. agricultural and
agroindustrial
combining form
ETYMOLOGY French, from Greek, from agros field — more at acre
1. of or belonging to fields or soil : agriculturalagrochemical
2. agricultural and
agroindustrial
agro-
combining form
- agricultural表示“农业的”：
-
agro-industry
agrobiology.
- ■ agriculture and ...表示“农业及…”：
-
agroforestry.
词源
from Greek agros 'field'.
1969 National Herald (New Delhi) 29 July 5/2 *Agro-based industries can operate during off-peak hours.
1949 Ann. Reg. 1948 208The planting..of a large-scale system of so-called ‘*agro-defensive’ forest strips to conserve moisture, overcome the effect of dust storms, and prevent soil erosion.
1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism 4Under *agrodespotic conditions the managerial bureaucracy was the ruling class.
1983 E. Gellner Nations & Nationalism ii. 9In the characteristic *agro-literate polity, the ruling class forms a small minority of the population, rigidly separate from the great majority of direct agricultural producers, or peasants.
1935 O. W. Willcox Nations can live at Home p. ix,Details of *agrobiological calculations.
1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means v. 45No government has hitherto made any serious effort to apply modern agro-biological methods on a large scale.
1984 Current Digest Soviet Press 20 June 1/1 Such generalizing indices of the state of the environment and natural resources as integral indexes of the quality (purity) of air and water and the agrobiological potential of soils.
1934 O. W. Willcox ReshapingAgric. i. 13Agricultural technology may never reach..the full condition of perfection foreseen for it by the *agrobiologists.
1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means v. 44A systematic exposition of the agro-biologist's case.
1984 Fortune 23 Jan. 32/1 Lysenko, for those who have forgotten about the once eminent Ukrainian agrobiologist, was a crackpot and intellectual crook.
1934 O. W. Willcox ReshapingAgric. ii. 31So far as the purely mathematical principles of *agrobiology are concerned the soil can never be filled to a point beyond which some additional yield, however small, might not be obtained.
1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means v. 44According to experts trained in the techniques of modern agro-biology, imperialism has now lost one of its principal justifications.
1976 Survey Summer–Autumn 71 The miracle in agrobiology promised in the very near future by the magician Lysenko.
1960 Observer 13 Nov. 3/1 *Agrobusiness means the application to farming of the sort of radical, unsentimental thinking that goes into business.
1983 Engin. News-Rec. 21 Apr. 24/2Its thrust during the remaining years of the 1980s will continue to be on agrobusiness and energy development.
1961 Britannica Bk. of Year 537/1The closer association between agriculture and commerce gave..*agrobusinessman, chiefly represented by the poultry-farmer turned technologist, using all the aids of mechanization and big business.
1984 Daily Tel. 2 Nov. 16/8He observes with horror the activities of the ‘agrobusinessmen’, water authorities, power stations and litter louts, who are doing their best..to vandalise the countryside.
1937 G. T. Selianinov World's Agro-ClimaticHandbk. 52The *agro-climatic belts are divided in thermal zones by the sufficiency of warmth during the growing season.
1960 H. J. Critchfield Gen. Climatol. xiii. 340Nuttonson has developed a series of agro-climatic analogues for North America by comparing climatic factors in different parts of the world.
1967 J. Oliver in J. A. Taylor Weather &Agric. 187 (heading)Problems of agro-climatic relationships in Wales in the eighteenth century.
1981 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 80/2Most research centers concentrate on a few major food crops adapted to a given agroclimatic zone.
1965 Thran & Broekhuizen ( title)*Agro-ecological atlas of cereal growing in Europe.
1978 Nature 6 Apr. 486/3 The programme is designed to develop new quinoa varieties adapted to different agro-ecological production zones in Bolivia and elsewhere.
1958 J. P. Bhattacharjee Sahajapur p. iii,The *Agro-Economic Research Centre for East India was started at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan in July, 1954.
1973 Nature 13 July p. vii/2 ( Advt. ),Collection, processing and analysis of agro-economic data relating to the structure and operation of the rural economy.
1974 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 9/1M. Rene Dumont, a French *agro-economist, said that last year one-third of all grains was consumed by cattle of rich countries.
1985 Financial Times 13 May 2/4 Several newspapers and agro-economists have attacked Herr Ignaz Kiechele, the Farm Minister, for his refusal to offer a compromise on the European Commission's call for a 3.6 per cent price cut for grains.
1977 J. G. Bene et al. Trees, Food & People 41One of the objectives of *agroforestry is to ‘domesticate’ and upgrade shifting agriculture to maximize sustained production on less well-endowed land.
1979 Canada Weekly 3 Jan. 4/2 Agroforestry can be practised on soils that are inherently infertile..or where climatic conditions are too extreme for ‘normal’ plant growth.
1984 Forestry Abstr. XLV. 558/1In agroforestry systems there are both ecological and economical interactions between the different components.
1974 Daily News (Tanzania) 27 Sept. 1/2 Tanzania's march towards mechanised farming has been set in motion with the establishment of an *agro-mechanisation centre in Rufiji District.
1977 Business Week ( Industr. ed. ) 29 Aug. 34f/2Tractor rehabilitation centers will be built throughout the country to provide convenient repair facilities. ‘These agro-mechanization centers, which we hope to expand elsewhere, also provide the companies with long-term potential for developing their business.’ [ sc. Tanzania]
1962 Wang & Barger Bibliogr. Agric. Meteorol. i. 19 (heading)*Agrometeorological organization and problems.
1980 ( title) Agrometeorological crop monitoring and forecasting (UN: FAO Plant Production & Protection PaperNo. 17).
1963 J.-Y. Wang Agric. Meteorol. i. 11The *agrometeorologist must first formulate an accurate description of the physical environment and biological responses.
1974 E. C. Stacey Peace Country Heritage ii. 71Stock questions to any modern agrometeorologist.
1957 J.-Y. Wang Evaluation Techniques Agrometeorol. (Ph.D. Thesis,Univ. of Wisconsin) 152*Agrometeorology, a branch of applied meteorology which deals with weather and climate in their relation to agriculture.
1983 R. A. Gommes ( title)Pocket computers in agrometeorology.
1973 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Aug. 68/3 The prime requisites for leadership have been..some rustic ability as an emotional orator, and enough money to permit a virtual full-time role in *agro-politics.
1975 Sunday Times 16 Mar. 72 The flavour makers bring world agro-politics right into the ordinary kitchen.
1980 Summary World Broadcasts: Eastern Europe (B.B.C.) 12 Feb. a1/7 A total of 455 young Vietnamese have completed their training as agricultural machinery and motor mechanics, *agrotechnologists or skilled forestry workers.
1984 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 14/4Agrotechnologists are planning to produce the perfect dairy cow by the year 2000.
1937 J. D. Bernal in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 200There is being built up in the Soviet Union an organised science unlike anything the world has seen before... Already in several fields its results are impressive, notably in aero-dynamics, in the study of the solid state and in *agrotechnology.
1981 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 80/1An immense quantity of agrotechnology is currently being developed by a large number of national and international agricultural research centers for the resource- and technology-poor farmers of the tropics and subtropics.
1969 Compar. Stud. Society &Hist. Apr. 121Peasant agglomerations, the so-called ‘*agro-towns’ that may number several thousand inhabitants, are fairly common in southern Italy.
1971 P. A. Allum Politics & Society Post-War Naples (1973) i. 28Certain large peasant agro-towns (like Casoria, Marano and Marchianise, etc.) in which the population of the plain is concentrated.
1968 J. S. Kennedy in Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. V. 498is best suited, not to small-unit, complex *agro-ecosystems run by Farmer Giles, but to the most advanced ones manned by specialists. [ Integrated pest control]
1972 Science 19 May 770/1 Management techniques directed toward the fullest utilization of natural insect mortality and other suppressive factors in any given agro-ecosystem.
1984 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. &Technol. 1985 75/1Dairy farming and grazing systems are the only major two-trophic-level agroecosystems commonly left in developing countries.
1930 Internat. Rev. Agric. Aug. 280In *agroecology there will be taken into consideration all the factors which have an influence on the development and success of the crop.
1987 S. B. Hecht in M. A. Altieri Agroecology i. 5At the heart of agroecology is the idea that a crop field is an ecosystem in which ecological processes found in other formations..also occur.
1991 New Age Jrnl. Apr. 12/2She has gone to England to learn biodynamic gardening, apprenticed at local organic farms, and studied at the agro-ecology program at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
1930 Internat. Rev. Agric. Aug. 279All the kinds of plant adaptations occurring should be most carefully studied by the *agroecologist.
1987 R. B. Norgaard in M. A. Altieri Agroecology ii. 21Agroecologists are fascinated by agricultural systems that have evolved over centuries.
1991 Discover Dec. 47/3 Agroecologists look for solutions to farmers' problems that are less ecologically and socially disruptive.
1994 On-board Chemical Spraying at N.Z. Int'l Airports in soc.culture.new-zealand (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Sept.The only way to get bugs into OZ/NZ is by doing it on purpose—as a sort of *agro-terrorism.
2004 Western Standard 27 Sept. 11 An agroterrorism attack can be virtually indistinguishable from natural outbreaks (of disease) and can be difficult to conclusively connect to a terrorist group.
1987 Trans. Instit.Brit. Geographers 12 145/1Another alternative is the *agro-tourism being encouraged by the Minister of Agriculture in a programme initiated in 1985.
1994 Leisure Managem. Sept. 39/1In Slovakia too, agrotourism is one route to keeping the villages alive while also supporting their traditional lifeline—agriculture.
2005 Trav. Weekly (Nexis) 25 Mar. 44Already popular in Istria, agrotourism is now developing in Dalmatia.
agro-
word-forming element meaning "pertaining to agriculture or cultivation," from Greek agro-, comb. form of agros "field" (see acre).
ORIGIN: from Greek agros land, field: see -o-
☞ agro
agro-
combining form
Etymology: French, from Greek, from agros field — more at acre
1. : of or belonging to fields or soil : agricultural
< agronomy >
< agrosterol >
2. : agricultural and
< agroindustrial >
1.
< agronomy >
< agrosterol >
2.
< agroindustrial >
agro-
Prefix
- agriculture
Derived terms
English words prefixed with agro-
See also
词根词缀：agro-
【来源及含义】Greek: land, soil, field, fields; earth; wild, as one who lives in the fields; wildness; savage, savageness
【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.
【同源单词】Agrobacterium, agrobacterium, agrobiologist, agrobiology, agrobusiness, agrochemical