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Horticulture definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOR'TICULTURE, n. [L. hortus, garden, and cultura, culture, from colo, to till.] The cultivation of a garden; or the art of cultivating gardens.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin hortus garden + English -i- + culture — more at yard Date: 1678 the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants • horticultural adjective • horticulturally adverb • horticulturist also horticulturalist noun

Britannica Concise

Branch of agriculture concerned with the cultivation of garden plants--generally fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals such as plants used for landscaping (see landscape gardening). Propagation, the controlled perpetuation of plants, is the most basic horticultural practice. Its objectives are to increase the numbers of a plant and to preserve its essential characteristics. Propagation may be achieved sexually by use of seeds or asexually by use of techniques such as cutting, grafting, and tissue culture. Successful horticulture depends on extensive control of the environment, incl. light, water, temperature, soil structure and fertility, and pests. Two important horticultural techniques are training (changing a plant's orientation in space) and pruning (judicious removal of plant parts), used to improve the appearance or usefulness of plants. See also floriculture.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the art of garden cultivation. Derivatives: horticultural adj. horticulturist n. Etymology: L hortus garden, after AGRICULTURE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horticulture Hor"ti*cul`ture, n. [L. hortus garden + cultura culture: cf. F. horticulture. See Yard an inclosure, and Culture.] The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Horticulture is the study and practice of growing plants.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Gardening.

Moby Thesaurus

bloom, blossom, blow, citriculture, floret, floriculture, floscule, flower, flower gardening, flower-growing, floweret, fruit-growing, gardening, groundskeeping, hortorium, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, market gardening, olericulture, orcharding, pomiculture, posy, truck gardening, viniculture, wildflower