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English vocab #8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agrarian | – ADJ. – relating to farmers and their way of life |
| Agronomist | – N. – one who deals with field-crop rotation and soil management |
| Arable | – ADJ. – suitable for cultivation |
| Cataclysm | – N. – a sudden, violent geological change or upheaval |
| Conservation | – N. – the act of protecting from harm or waste; the preservation of natural resources |
| Converge | – V. – to move together; to meet at the same point |
| Ecologist | – N. – one who studies organisms and their environments |
| Erode | – V. – to gradually wear away by natural means |
| Floe | – N. – a flat sheet of ice floating over a body of water |
| Gradation | – N. – the act of bringing land to a uniform level or slope |
| Herbivorous | – ADJ. – feeding on plants |
| Horticulture | – N. – the science of growing plants |
| Husbandry | – N. – the management of livestock and crops |
| Igneous | – ADJ. – formed by the solidifying of volcanic magma |
| Mammal | – N. – a vertebrate, warm-blooded, hairy animal with milk producing glands to nourish its young |
| Marsupial | – N. – an order of mammal, most of which carry and suckle their young in exterior pouches |
| Paddock | – N. – a fenced enclosure used mainly for grazing animals |
| Sediment | – N. – material that settles to the bottom of liquids or is deposited by wind or rain |
| Tundra | – N. – the treeless plain of arctic and subarctic areas with permanently frozen subsoil |
| Yeoman | - N. – a small, independent farmer; an industrious, dependable worker |
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