Meanings
- uncountableWheat growing.
The industries of the Sacramento basin include mining, smelting, lumbering, dairying, grazing, orchard farming, graniculture, sugar manufacture, and fishing.
1912, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Serial Set2 more examples
He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture. If the rains were more abundant we should have rich pastures, plenty of manure, and a totally different agrarian rotation. The want of rains and the scarcity of flowing water thus potently and invincibly influence the entire agrarian economy of Sicily."
1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, volume 20Euhemerists who believed that Ceres was deified for having taught graniculture to grateful Greeks were now informed that this event had taken place in 1030 B.C.
1976, K. K. Ruthven, Myth
Origin
- Italiangranicoltura
- Englishgraniculture
From Italian granicoltura.
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