HORTICULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horticulture mean? 

• HORTICULTURE (noun)
  The noun HORTICULTURE has 1 sense:

1. the cultivation of plants

  Familiarity information: HORTICULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORTICULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cultivation of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gardening; horticulture

Hypernyms ("horticulture" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Domain member category:

garden (work in the garden)

landscape (do landscape gardening)

landscape (embellish with plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horticulture"):

landscape gardening; landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)

market gardening (the growing of vegetables or flowers for market)

floriculture; flower gardening (the cultivation of flowering plants)

Derivation:

horticultural (of or relating to the cultivation of plants)

horticulturist (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))

 Context examples 

A. facilis was originally isolated from soil and is used as a soil inoculant in horticulture and agriculture.

(Acidovorax facilis, NCI Thesaurus)