Cultivation vs Wildland - What's the difference?
cultivation | wildland |
The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture
The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
* 1837, , question submitted to the law officers of the Crown in England, quoted in (w), opinion in Mercer v. Attorney General for Ontario'', 1881, in ''Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada , Volume V,
* 1883 September 22, Mallerstang Forest and Pendragon Castle, Westmoreland (book review), in Manchester City News'', Notes and Queries section, No. 37, reprinted in J. H. Nodal (ed.), ''City News Notes and Queries'', ''City News Office (1883–4), Volume V,
As nouns the difference between cultivation and wildland
is that cultivation is the art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture while wildland is land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.cultivation
English
Noun
- The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.
- ''These fields are in cultivation .
- His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.
- She is a woman of great cultivation .
Synonyms
* (art or act of cultivating) tillage * (advancement or refinement in condition) refinement, culture; educationwildland
English
Alternative forms
* wild landNoun
page 686,
- Whether it is in point of law competent for his Majesty, with the advice of and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Brunswick'', to render the tracts of wildland in the colony which belong to his Majesty ''jure coronæ subject to the appropriation of the legislature of the province for a fixed period or in perpetuity in return for a civil list to be settled on the Crown for a similar term, or in perpetuity as may be thought best?
page 136,
- The traveller by the Midland Railway line to Carlisle passes through Mallerstang in the stretch of wildland traversed before reaching Kirkby Stephen, but there is no station in any portion of the valley to acquaint him with the fact.