| agrochemical | <chemistry> Term for any artificially-produced chemical (such as a feed additives, pharmaceutical, fertiliser, pesticide, fumigant, fertiliser, plant hormones, steroids, antibiotics, mycotoxins) used in agriculture to improve crop or livestock production. (04 Jul 1999) |
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| agroforestry | <ecology> The collective word for all land-use systems and practices in which trees and shrubs are deliberately grown on the same land management unit as crops and/or animals. This can be either in some form of spatial arrangement or in a time sequence. To qualify as agroforestry, a given land-use system or practice must permit significant economic and ecological interactions between the woody and non-woody components. Within this broad definition, a wide variety of both traditional, as well as relatively new systems and practices, fall under the umbrella concept of agroforestry. (04 Jul 1999) |
| agroinfection | <molecular biology, virology> A method of using the t-DNA of virus. (06 May 1997) |
| agrom | <medicine> A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agromania | <psychiatry> An obsolete term for a morbid impulse to live in the open country or in solitude. Origin: G. Agros, field, + mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |
| agronomy | The scientific study of soil management and crop production. (06 May 1997) |
| agropine synthase | <enzyme> Final enzyme in the three enzyme pathway for agropine synthesis; cyclises deoxymannityl-glutamine to the lactone, agropine Registry number: EC 4.2.1.- Synonym: ags gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| agrostographic | Pertaining to agrostography. Origin: Cf. F. Agrostographique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agrostographical | Pertaining to agrostography. Origin: Cf. F. Agrostographique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agrostography | A description of the grasses. Origin: Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agrostological | Pertaining to agrostology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agrostologist | One skilled in agrostology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agrostology | <study> That part of botany which treats of the grasses. Origin: Gr. (04 Mar 1998) |
| agrypnia | Rarely used term for insomnia. Origin: G. Sleeplessness, fr. Agreo, to hunt after, + hypnos, sleep (05 Mar 2000) |
| agrypnocoma | A wakeful, apathetic, or lethargic state. Origin: G. Agrypnos, sleepless, + koma, coma (05 Mar 2000) |