[mod. f. assumed Gr. *ἀγρονομία n. of state, f. ἀγρονόμος: see AGRONOME, and cf. οἰκονομία. The Fr. agronomie may be earlier.] The management of land, rural economy, husbandry.
1814. Sch. Good Living, 196. Equally skilled in agronomy and gastronomy, in the cultivation of the field or in the adaptation of its produce.
1881. Rodwell, in Nature, XXIV. 32. The … papers communicated to the section of Agronomy related … to the … agriculture of Algiers.
