agrology

Definition

A subdiscipline of agronomy (the science of utilizing animals, plants, and soils) and of soil science which addresses the influence of edaphic (soil-related) conditions on crop production for optimizing it.

Etymology

From agro- + -logy, modelled after French agrologie.

Example Sentences

• "Earth.—We have to examine its nature in connection with its products; this is the object of a technologic science, derived from mineralogy, and to which we give the name Agrology."
• "The subject of agriculture will in this school be considered under (1) agrology, or the study of the surface of the earth as to its origin, composition, and physical and chemical properties, […]"
• "The future of civilization, and of the human race, will be largely determined by the agrology of the present and the immediate future."