Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to agriculture or farming.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to agriculture or the tillage of the earth.
  • noun One who tills or cultivates the earth.

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

  • adjective Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

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  • adjective Relating to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek geōponikos, from geōponein, to till : geō-, geo- + ponein, to toil; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

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Ancient Greek γεωπονικός (geōponikos, "of agriculture") γῆ (gē, "earth") + πόνος (ponos, "work, toil"): compare French géoponique.

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Examples

  • The other members of the Committee were the Reverend Mr. Butters, of a neighboring town, who was to make the prayer before the Exercises of the Exhibition, and two or three notabilities of Rockiand, with geoponic eyes, and glabrous, bumpless foreheads.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

  • A brown, parchment-hided old man of the geoponic or bucolic species, gray-eyed, we fancy, _queued_ perhaps, with much weather-cunning and plentiful

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • A brown, parchment-hided old man of the geoponic or bucolic species, gray-eyed, we fancy,

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Reverend Mr. Butters, of a neighboring town, who was to make the prayer before the Exercises of the Exhibition, and two or three notabilities of Rockland, with geoponic eyes, and glabrous, bumpless foreheads.

    Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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  • Of or relating to agriculture or farming.

    December 16, 2007

  • The stirring in regions chthonic

    And warming of earth are synchronic

    As seeds grow and flourish

    To comfort and nourish,

    Encouraged by skills geoponic.

    June 4, 2018