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Word Meanings - HORTICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

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  • 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.

 

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