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As nouns the difference between environment and landrace

is that environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest while landrace is any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).

environment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  • The natural world or ecosystem.
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment .}}
  • All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  • A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  • (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  • (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
  • (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * environ * environmentalist * environmentalism

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    landrace

    English

    (wikipedia landrace)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, attributive) Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).
  • * 1961 , Breeds of Swine , Farmers' Bulletin No. 1263, US Department of Agriculture, page 7,
    • One of the newer breeds of swine in the United States is the American Landrace'. American '''Landrace''' hogs (figs. 19 and 20) are descendants of Danish ' Landrace hogs imported by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1934.
  • * 2009 , Pablo Eyzaguirre, Arwen Bailey, International case studies and tropical home gardens projects: offering lessons for a new research agenda in Europe'', A. Bailey, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, L. Maggioni, ''Crop genetic resources in European home gardens: Proceedings of a Workshop , page 1,
    • First, many crop landraces in Europe are being lost without our even knowing what is being lost.
  • * 2011', A. C. Newton, ''et al.'', ''Cereal '''Landraces for Sustainable Agriculture'', Eric Lichtfouse, Marjolaine Hamelin, Philippe Debaeke, Mireille Navarrete (editors), ''Sustainable Agriculture , Volume 2, page 154,
    • In both cases the morphological diversity within the oat accessions did not differ between landraces and modern cultivars.

    Usage notes

    There is some overlap between the terms landrace and breed. The former is sometimes used in cases where selective breeding was the initial source of differentiation. The term is also sometimes used in the names of breeds based on landraces, even though the breed is itself not considered a landrace. Breeds also sometimes retain the name of the landrace from which they derived.

    Synonyms

    * (any domesticated animal or plant adapted to its new environment) natural breed (animal), traditional breed (animal), traditional variety (plant)

    See also

    * autochthonous * heirloom plant

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