Word Meanings - POMICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

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• FRUIT
  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• FRUITION
  Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• CULTURE FEATURES
  The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
• CULTURED
  1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone. 2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other
• FRUITERESS
  A woman who sells fruit.
• CULTURE MYTH
  A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.
• FRUITY
  Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.
• FRUITER
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• POMOLOGY
  The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.
• CULTURELESS
  Having no culture.
• FRUITERY
  1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips. 2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.
• FRUITERER
  One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
• FRUITFUL
  Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
• FRUITING
  Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
• CULTURE
  1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil. 2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
• FRUITESTERE
  A fruiteress.
• SELF-CULTURE
  Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.
• SILVICULTURE
  See SYLVICULTURE
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• OSTREACULTURE
  The artificial cultivation of oysters.
• GRAPE FRUIT
  The shaddock.
• FLORICULTURE
  The cultivation of flowering plants.
• DOMICULTURE
  The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. R. Park.
• OVERFRUITFUL
  Too fruitful.
• AGRICULTURE
  The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
• VITICULTURE
  The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.
• STIRPICULTURE
  The breeding of special stocks or races.
• INCULTURE
  Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. Feltham.