Word Meanings - OSTREACULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The artificial cultivation of oysters.

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.