Agriculture

n.

1.

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Noun	1.	agriculture - a large-scale farming enterprise Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm
	2.	agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock Synonyms: farming, husbandry
	3.	Agriculture - the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 Synonyms: Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, USDA
	4.	agriculture - the class of people engaged in growing food

AGRICULTURE. The art of cultivating the earth in order to obtain from it the divers things it can produce; and particularly what is useful to man, as grain, fruit's, cotton, flax, and other things. Domat, Dr. Pub. liv. tit. 14, s. 1, n. 1.

Ceres, Cora, Demeter, Dionysos, Dionysus, Flora, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Kore, Persephassa, Persephone, Pomona, Proserpina, Proserpine, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, corn god, fertility god, forest god, vegetation spirit