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NOMADIC CROPPING

Specialty Definition: NOMADIC CROPPING

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Food & Agriculture

A primitive, more or less unregulated method of cyclical cultivation, still widely practised in the tropics, whereby cultivators cut some or all of the tree crop, burn it, and raise agricultural crops for one or more years before moving on to another site and repeating the process. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NOMADIC CROPPING

Language Translations for "NOMADIC CROPPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

svedjebrug (Ash farming, Burn-beating, Burning, roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), flyttemarksbrug (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ladangsysteem (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

French

  

culture itinérante. (various references)

   

German

  

Wanderfeldbau (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), Baumfeldwirtschaft (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εναλλασσόμενη καλλιέργεια (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

coltura itinerante (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), agricoltura vagante (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omadicnay oppingcray

   

Portuguese

  

cultura itinerante (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cultivo nómada (roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svedjebruk (burn-beating). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NOMADIC CROPPING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-p-r"

-4 letters: picarooning.

-5 letters: coadmiring, monoacidic, monocarpic, poniarding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NOMADIC CROPPING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4F 4D 41 44 49 43      43 52 4F 50 50 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001111 01001101 01000001 01000100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#68 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004F 004D 0041 0044 0049 0043      0043 0052 004F 0050 0050 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4849473538433723752495050434841

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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