Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is engaged in the study of agronomy, or the management of lands.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

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  • noun A scientist whose speciality is agronomy.

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  • noun an expert in soil management and field-crop production

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Examples

  • Joseph Stalin's fraudulent "agronomist" Trofim Lysenko caused harvest failures when Soviet agriculture was ordered to follow his bizarre pseudo-science.

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  • The young man with the white hair was a Colombian agronomist who was explaining something about crop production.

    Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories 2011

  • The field was so sparse that there was "no place for a jack rabbit to hide," said Jim Shroyer , agronomist for Kansas State University.

    Drought Caps Kansas Wheat Tom Polansek 2011

  • "In our Soviet Union, comrades, people are not born," declared the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko under Stalin.

    Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011

  • As a result the farmers have built up a sustainable business that as well as offering marketing clout, runs a subsidized store, a credit union, and employs a Cuban agronomist specializing in organic methods.

    An Interview with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body SHop 2010

  • We had just taken a tour of the camp, led by a vibrant young man in a straw hat named Patrick, of late affectionately called "L'Agronome" or "agronomist" in French.

    Uma Viswanathan: New Leadership In Haiti Uma Viswanathan 2011

  • Acertified crop adviser and agronomist looks for weeds resistant to glyphosate.

    Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers | Impact Lab 2010

  • Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name

    The Next Breadbasket? 2009

  • We had just taken a tour of the camp, led by a vibrant young man in a straw hat named Patrick, of late affectionately called "L'Agronome" or "agronomist" in French.

    Uma Viswanathan: New Leadership In Haiti Uma Viswanathan 2011

  • “We could increase yields in sub-Saharan Africa threefold tomorrow with off-the-shelf technology,” says Kenneth Cassman, a well-regarded agronomist who researches potential yields.

    The Next Breadbasket? 2009

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