AgriInfo Glossary

To describe how close to the head of an animal something is, three distinct terms are used: Rostral (from Latin rostrum, meaning 'beak, nose'), meaning situated toward the oral or nasal region, or in the case of the brain, toward the tip of the frontal lobe.

The one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem.

Is the waste matter remaining after food has been digested, discharged from the bowels; excrement. (Also feces)

(In a female mammal) Either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus.

A farmhouse and the buildings around it. Examples from the Corpusfarmstead: Surprisingly frequently, leys also pass exactly through important and isolated farmsteads often on a similar orientation to the main buildings.

A thin sheath of fibrous tissue enclosing a muscle or other organ.

Is the injection of fertilizers, used for soil amendments, water amendments and other water-soluble products into an irrigation system. Fertigation is related to chemigation, the injection of chemicals into an irrigation system

The diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and

Is grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns.

Is a long, narrow opening, e.g. any of the spaces separating convolutions of the brain

The side of a person's or animal's body between the ribs and the hip

To strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass).

To bare the upper teeth, and

Is an irregular rising and falling in number or amount; a variation.

Refers to food, especially dried hay or straw, for cattle and other livestock.