agri-, agrio-, ager +
(Greek > Latin: fields; wild, savage; living in the fields, via ager, agri.)
agrizoiatrist
A veterinarian who deals with wild animals.
agrizoiatry
A branch of veterinary medicine specializing in wild animals.
agrizoology, agrizoic, agrizoon
The study of wild animals or a reference to wild animals.
agrizoophobia
An abnormal or excessive fear of wild animals.
agroecology; agroecological
1. The study of the relationship between the environment and agricultural crops.
2. The study of the relationship between an agricultural system and its surrounding environment.
3. Ecology as applied to agriculture.
arid-agriculture
Desert agriculture which includes research in how to increase the agricultural productivity of lands dominated by lack of freshwater, an excessive abundance of heat and sunlight, and usually one or more of extreme winter cold periods, short rainy season, saline soil or water, strong dry winds, and poor soil structure.
geothermal agriculture
The use of geothermal heat in agriculture; that is, the use of low-temperature geothermal water to warm irrigation water or to sterilize soil.
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homini libero dignius.
Of all the occupations in which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more delightful, none more becoming to a freeman.
This motto, written by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), is also reproduced in a shorter version in the entrance foyer of the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture: Nihil melius nihil homine libero dignius, quam agricultura.
peregrinar
1. To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; especially, to go on foot in foreign countries.
2. To travel through a specific place.
peregrinate, peregrinating, peregrinated
1. To travel about.
2. To travel around a place or from place to place.
3. To journey or to travel from place to place; especially, on foot.
4. To travel through or over; to traverse.
peregrination, peregrinations
1. Travel from one place to another; especially, on foot.
2. A course of travel; a journey.
3. Etymology: from Latin
peregrinatio, from
peregrinari, "to stay" or "to travel", from
per-, "through" +
ager, "field, territory, land, country".
Digital memories will be able to record peoples' locations which can be logged at regular intervals, producing animated maps that trace their
peregrinations.
—Based on a statement made by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
as seen in "A Digital Life", Scientific American;
March, 2007; page 42.
peregrinator
1. Someone who travels.
2. A traveler into foreign countries.
peregrine, peregrin
1. Roving or wandering; migratory.
2. In biology, foreign, non-native; a reference to organisms transported into an area from outside that area.
3. Etymology: Latin, to travel about; foreign; abroad; that which is found "outside the Roman territory" (the
ager Romanus), "field".
Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin peregrinus, "wandering, pilgrim", from Latin, "foreigner", from pereger, "being abroad"; from per-, "through" + ager, "land, fields".
Peregrine Falcon
The Peregrine Falcon (
Falco peregrinus), sometimes formerly known in North America as "Duck Hawk", is a medium-sized falcon about the size of a large crow.
The English and scientific species names mean "wandering falcon", and refer to the fact that some populations are migratory.
peregrinity
1. Foreignness; strangeness.
2. Travel; wandering.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)":
agra-;
agrest-;
agro-;
argill-;
choro-;
chthon-;
epeiro-;
geo-;
glob-;
lut-;
myso-;
pedo-;
pel-;
rhyp-;
soil-;
sord-;
terr-.