What does "horticultural" mean?
Of or pertaining to horticulture; connected with gardening.
Horticultural
adj
adj ·5 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Of or pertaining to horticulture; connected with gardening.
- Grammar: horticultural is listed as adj.
- Nearest alternatives: arboricultural, blooming, bloomy, blossoming.
- Useful contrasts: nonhorticultural.
- Usage evidence: Longwood Gardens in the eastern state of Pennsylvania has been described by many visitors as a horticultural paradise and attracts hundreds of thousands of nature lovers each year. Over the lush 424 hectares there are more than 40 different gardens and displays. VOA's Amitis Darabnia takes us inside the garden's conservatory, a large indoor facility that is home to 5,500 types of plants.
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of or pertaining to horticulture; connected with gardening.
"Throughout the garden there was, indeed, much arrangement, and much art; from the water-jet, trained to fling its silvery cascade, to the yew trees shaped into peacocks; still it was arrangement prompted by taste, and art that loved the nature which it guided. And if the horticultural skill, on which Mrs Churchill piqued herself, might have escaped the stranger's observation, the little knot now gathered before her terrace would inevitably have caught his attention."
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to the cultivation of plants wordnet
Antonyms
Example
"Longwood Gardens in the eastern state of Pennsylvania has been described by many visitors as a horticultural paradise and attracts hundreds of thousands of nature lovers each year. Over the lush 424 hectares there are more than 40 different gardens and displays. VOA's Amitis Darabnia takes us inside the garden's conservatory, a large indoor facility that is home to 5,500 types of plants."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "horticultural"?
Common synonyms include: arboricultural, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, bonsai, cultivated.
How do you use "horticultural" in a sentence?
Longwood Gardens in the eastern state of Pennsylvania has been described by many visitors as a horticultural paradise and attracts hundreds of thousands of nature lovers each year. Over the lush 424 hectares there are more than 40 different gardens and displays. VOA's Amitis Darabnia takes us inside the garden's conservatory, a large indoor facility that is home to 5,500 types of plants.
Etymology
From horticulture + -al.