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USDA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

Synonyms:

Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("USDA" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The antioxidant capacity of USDA Red was 42–53 percent higher than other spinach cultivars in five tests conducted over three years.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

USDA Red spinach also works frozen or canned.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A true red spinach like USDA Red will bring excitement to the spinach market and could help attract people back to eating spinach.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)