horticulture

3 definitions found

horticulture - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

horticulture - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

horticulture - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "horticulture":
     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