agriculturist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a specialist trained in the science, practice, or management of agriculture

   The agriculturist tested which crop rotation restored nitrogen to the depleted soil.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who cultivates land or raises crops; a farmer, especially in formal or historical use

   Each agriculturist brought grain to market and traded it for tools.

Formed in the eighteenth century from agriculture + -ist. Agriculture comes from Latin agricultura, built from ager ("field") and cultura ("cultivation"), from colere ("to till or cultivate"). The suffix -ist denotes a practitioner or specialist.

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