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    HORTICULTURE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The cultivation of plantsplay

    Synonyms:

    gardening; horticulture

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    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))

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