horticulture

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hor=ti=cul=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

horticulture, 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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

horticulture, n. the art of garden cultivation.

Derivative

horticultural adj. horticulturist n.

Etymology

L hortus garden, after AGRICULTURE

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

horticulture

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.