(n.) An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)
Example Sentences:
(1) Others lay down in the crops, but the 58-year-old agriculturalist, who was respected in his community as a supervisor at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, had two daughters at home.
(2) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(3) This must include the study of peasant agriculturalists who have adapted many techniques from cultures that have long been extinct.
(4) A total of 1323 sera from healthy subjects in the Philippines including Filipino lowlanders, Mongoloid slash-and-burn agriculturalists and the Mongoloid aboriginal hunter-gatherers (Aeta group and Mamanwa group) were examined for the presence of antibodies to HTLV-1 by the indirect immunofluorescence test and by the Western blot technique using HTLV-1 carrying cells.
(5) This study examines degenerative joint disease of the major appendicular joints in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists from northwestern Alabama.
(6) Changes in mean tooth size and associated t-tests reveal strong and significant reduction in dental size between the Mesolithic and Agriculturalist samples, followed by a continued although diminished trend of reduction for only the molar teeth between the two Agriculturalist groups.
(7) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
(8) Cribra orbitalia, a form of porotic hyperostosis associated with iron deficiency anemia, is just as common among these fisherpeople, whose diet was rich in iron and essential amino acids, as it is among maize-dependent agriculturalists.
(9) While care is needed in generalising, the evidence suggested that for agriculturalists in the tropics, the worst times of year are the wet seasons, typically marked by a concurrence of food shortages, high demands for agricultural work, high exposure to infection especially diarrhoeas, malaria, and skin diseases, loss of body weight, low birth weights, high neonatal mortality, poor child care, malnutrition, sickness and indebtedness.
(10) Parasite prevalences and intensities were analysed in relation to age, sex, religion and occupation: females (70%) were found to be more infected than males (64%); Muslims (50%) were less infected than Christians (68%) and agriculturalists (90%) were the most infected occupational group.
(11) The population structure of Barra is similar to other British isolates in the recent past, but an order of magnitude less inbred than slash-and-burn agriculturalists and Pacific Islanders.
(12) The spread of thalassemia among prehistoric populations of the Mediterranean Basin has been linked to the increased risk to early agriculturalists posed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
(13) (A-group, C-group, Pharaonic); and Intensive Agriculturalist, A.D. 0-1400 (Meroitic, X-Group, Christian).
(14) The study suggests that prehistoric hunter-gatherer peoples carried fewer helminth parasites than agriculturalists.
(15) A maize-based iron- and protein-deficient diet is commonly cited as the most important cause of porotic hyperostosis among American Indian agriculturalists.
(16) Most of the people examined in the present study were agriculturalists.
(17) The modern Japanese are tied to Koreans, Chinese, Southeast Asians, and the Yayoi rice agriculturalists who entered Japan in 300 B.C.
(18) In all cases focal agriculturalists exhibited smaller teeth and a higher frequency of severe linear enamel hypoplasia.
(19) During this period differences developed as a result of selective advantage in the Negroes following the pastoralist-agriculturalist way of life as opposed to the hunter-gatherer way of life.
(20) The cross-cultural distribution of handedness provides support for this model since the more conforming agriculturalists as measured by the Asch Test have a significantly lower incidence of left-handedness (0.59%, 1.5% and 3.4%), while the more permissively socialized Eskimo and Arunta hunters, who are seen to be more independent on the Asch Test, have 11.3% and 10.5% left-handers, respectively.
Agriculturist
Definition:
(n.) One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
Example Sentences:
(1) It affected peoples of the age between 4 to 70 years old, and their occupations were mainly outside workers such as agriculturist, worker, etc.
(2) Phenotype and gene frequencies of several polymorphic genetic markers were examined in a Sikh agriculturist caste group, Lobanas of Punjab, India.
(3) Children of poor socio-economic conditions as determined by occupational status (labourers) suffered significantly more often from diarrhoea as compared to children of higher socio-economic status (agriculturist and others).
(4) The Bambara of Mali, who are sedentary agriculturists, number about two million and are the most important ethnic group in the country.
(5) Compared to other relevant osteological samples, this group of hunting-gathering California Indians shows more degenerative changes than settled agriculturists (from Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico) but substantially less frequent involvement than in arctic hunters (Alaskan Eskimos).
(6) The group was apparently named by their booking agent; Anderson didn't learn until later that Jethro Tull was also the name of a noted English agriculturist.
(7) The incidence of dental caries was low by comparison to other prehistoric agriculturists except for two forms of root caries: cervical and cemental.
(8) Aquaculturists work primarily with "cold-blooded" ("lower") animals, whereas agriculturists work with "warm-blooded" ("higher") animals.
(9) As agriculturist, man recognized Earth, Heat and Water as essential to plant life and projected them as cosmic elements.
(10) It was only when we moved from being hunter-gatherers to agriculturists about 8,000 years ago that we could accumulate enough grapes for winemaking to begin.