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.