CULTIVATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cultivated mean? 

• CULTIVATED (adjective)
  The adjective CULTIVATED has 3 senses:

1. (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing

2. no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use

3. marked by refinement in taste and manners

  Familiarity information: CULTIVATED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CULTIVATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing

Context example:

cultivated land

Antonym:

uncultivated ((of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops)

Sense 2

Meaning:

No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use

Context example:

cultivated blackberries

Similar:

tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Marked by refinement in taste and manners

Synonyms:

civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; genteel; polite

Context example:

polite society

Similar:

refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)

 Context examples 

The maiden lady is a Miss Norton, rich, cultivated, and kind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Holmes had remarkable powers, carefully cultivated, of seeing in the dark.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Initially, scientists sequenced the genomes of the two wild ancestors separately, using DNA taken from the two species rather than from cultivated peanut.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production or devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.

(Farm, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six feet) when cultivated for its leaves.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

A probiotic containing live, cultivated, freeze-dried lactic acid bacteria with gastrointestinal (GI) protective, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulating and potential antitumor properties.

(Live Freeze-Dried Lactic Acid Bacteria Probiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

The world has outgrown them, and there is no place now for their strange fashions, their practical jokes, and carefully cultivated eccentricities.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Save for this one excursion, he spent his days in long and often solitary walks, or in chatting with a number of village gossips whose acquaintance he had cultivated.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists have finished constructing the pan-genome for the cultivated tomato and its wild relatives, mapping almost 5,000 previously undocumented genes.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)

Introducing these genes into cultivated watermelons could yield high-quality, sweet watermelons that are able to grow in more diverse climates, important as climate change increasingly challenges farmers.

(Harvesting genes to improve watermelons, National Science Foundation)