cult-, -cultural, -culture, -cultures, -culturally, -cultrist +
(Latin: to care for, to till [the ground], to cherish; to dwell, to inhabit)
arboriculturist
1. Someone who cultivates trees and shrubs for lumber use or for ornamental reasons.
2. Someone who is trained in forestry.
aviculture
1. The raising, keeping, and care of birds.
2. The care and rearing of birds in cages, aviaries, or enclosures.
3. The practice of keeping birds in captivity for scientific study.
aviculturist
A person who cares for and rears birds in cages, aviaries, or other kinds of enclosures.
bicultural
1. Of, pertaining to, or combining two cultures.
2. Relating to two distinct cultures in one nation or geographic region; for example, bicultural education.
biopyocultured
The cultivation of pus with living cells which were cultivated for medical purposes.
boviculture
Cattle-rearing.
caniculture
The breeding and rearing of dogs.
capilliculture
The prevention and cure for baldness.
citriculture
The cultivation of citrus fruits or products; such as, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and limes; as well as related fruit; such as khumquat, mandarin, tangelo, citrange, and shaddock.
citriculturist
Someone who cultivates citrus fruits or products for commercial purposes.
colonial
1. Of, relating to, possessing, or inhabiting a colony or colonies.
2. Of or relating to the thirteen British colonies that became the original United States of America.
3. Of or relating to the colonial period in the United States.
4. Living in, consisting of, or forming a colony; such as, "colonial organisms".
5. Etymology: from Latin colonia, "landed estate, farm, settlement, colony", from colonus, "tiller of the ground, husbandman, farmer"; from colere, "to till (the ground), to cultivate, to dwell, to inhabit"; related to incola, "inhabitant".
colonist, colonizer
1. An original settler or founder of a colony.
2. An inhabitant of a colony.
colonization
1. The act or process of establishing a colony or colonies.
2. Sending people to live in and to govern another country:
colonize
1. To form or establish a colony or colonies.
2. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony.
3. To resettle or confine (people) in or as if in a colony.
4. To settle in a colony or colonies.
colony
1. A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
2. Any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.
3. A number of people coming from the same country, or speaking the same language, residing in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it; enclave: the Polish colony in Israel; the American colony in Paris.
4. Any group of individuals having similar interests, occupations, etc., usually living in a particular locality; community; such as, a colony of artists.
5. An aggregation of bacteria growing together as the descendants of a single cell.
6. Ecologically, a group of organisms of the same kind living or growing in close association.
7. Etymologically, a
colony is a "settled land". Latin
colere "inhabit, cultivate" refers to someone who settled on a new piece of land and cultivated it and so became a
colonus and the land he settled was his
colonia.
The German city of Cologne gets its name from Latin colonia; in Roman times it was called Colonia Agrippina, the "settlement" or "colony of Agrippa".