Agriculture

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• colony

  group of the same kind of animals or plants.
• colostrum

  The first secretion from the mammary glands after giving birth, rich in antibodies.
• colt

  A colt is a male horse that's younger than four years old.
• combine

  Join or merge to form a single unit or substance.
• common weed

  A plant that possesses undesirable traits and is invasive to our lawns and gardens.
• community

  A community is a group of organisms that share a common locality, interest, or characteristic.
• compost

  Organic residues, or a mixture of organic residues and soil, that have been piled, wetted, and allowed to undergo biological decomposition. Mineral fertilizers are sometimes added.
• concrescent

  Biology The growing together of related parts, tissues, or cells.
• cone

  Cone, in botany, mass of scales or bracts, usually ovate in shape, containing the reproductive organs of certain nonflowering plants.
• cone-bearing plant

  Group of plants that produce seeds on instead of flower.
• conservation agriculture

  Conservation Agriculture is a farming system that can prevent losses of arable land while regenerating degraded lands.
• conserve {protection of e.g. living things}

  The protection or improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure their highest economic or social benefit, for some specified purpose.
• copper sulphate

  A blue crystalline solid used in electroplating and as a fungicide
• cover crop

  A close growing crop grown primarily for the purpose of protecting and improving soil between periods of regular crop production, or in orchards and vineyards.
• cow

  A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef.
• crease

  A line, mark, or ridge made by or as if by folding a pliable substance.
• cricket

  An insect related to the grasshoppers but with shorter legs. The male produces a characteristic musical chirping sound.
• crocodile

  A large predatory semiaquatic reptile with long jaws, long tail, short legs, and a horny textured skin.
• crop {bird’s gullet}

  Pouch above a bird stomach where food is softened before going to the stomach.
• crop {e.g. wheat}

  A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable.
• crop rotation

  A planned sequence of crops growing in a regularly recurring succession on the same area of land, as contrasted to continuous culture of one crop growing different crops in haphazard order.
• crow

  A large bird with mostly glossy black plumage, a heavy bill, and a raucous voice.
• crust

  A surface layer on soils, ranging in thickness from a few millimetres to as much as 3 cm, that physical-chemical processes have caused to be much more compact, hard and brittle when dry than the material immediately beneath it.
• cud

  Partly digested food returned from the first stomach of ruminants to the mouth for further chewing.
• cultivate

  Cultivate means to improve and prepare land for crops, to grow or tend plants, to foster or develop something.