agroforestry
/ˌæɡroʊˈfɔɹɪstɹi/noun
agroforestry is a noun meaning “An agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-R-O-F-O-R-E-S-T-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of agroforestry is agroforestries.
What does agroforestry mean?
noun
- 1
An agricultural approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce agroforestry?
- /ˌæɡroʊˈfɔɹɪstɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-agroforestry.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Microchip08-agroforestry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agroforestry
- agroforestries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is agroforestry?
Agroforestry appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Agroforestry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense approach combining trees and agriculture:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | agroforesterie |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does agroforestry come from?
By surface analysis, agro- + forestry, or, by surface analysis, agroforest + -ry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).