Word Meanings - OSTREACULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The artificial cultivation of oysters.
Related words: (words related to OSTREACULTURE)
- ARTIFICIALITY
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial. - ARTIFICIALLY
1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet. - ARTIFICIAL
1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2. - ARTIFICIALNESS
The quality of being artificial. - ARTIFICIALIZE
To render artificial. - CULTIVATION
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state - INARTIFICIAL
Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art; natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial character. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ly, adv. -- In*ar`ti*fi"cial*ness, n. - INCULTIVATION
Want of cultivation. Berington.