Word Meanings - HORTICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
Related words: (words related to HORTICULTURE)
- GARDEN
German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful - ORCHARDING
1. The cultivation of orchards. 2. Orchards, in general. - CULTIVATABLE
Cultivable. - GARDENING
The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture. - GARDENSHIP
Horticulture. - GARDENER
One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist. - GARDENLESS
Destitute of a garden. Shelley. - GARDENLY
Like a garden. W. Marshall. - GARDENIA
A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden. - ORCHARD
1. A garden. 2. An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass , - ORCHARDIST
One who cultivates an orchard. - CULTIVATE
cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time - CULTIVATOR
1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. 2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with - CULTIVATION
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state - INCULTIVATED
Uncultivated. Sir T. Herbert. - INCULTIVATION
Want of cultivation. Berington.