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floriage |
floriated |
floriation |
floricomous |
floricultural |
floriculture
| floriculturist
| florid
| florida
| florida arrowroot
| florida bean
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floriculture
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun floriculture has 1 sense
- floriculture(n = noun.act) flower gardening - the cultivation of flowering plants; Array is a kind of gardening, horticulture
Derived form adjective floricultural1
CIDE DICTIONARY
floriculture, n. [L. flos, floris, flower + cultura culture.].
The cultivation of flowering plants. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
floriculture, n. the cultivation of flowers.
Derivative
floricultural adj. floriculturist n.
Etymology
L flos floris flower + CULTURE, after horticulture
THESAURUS
floriculture
bloom, blossom, blow, citriculture, floret, floscule, flower, flower gardening, flower-growing, floweret, fruit-growing, gardening, groundskeeping, horticulture, hortorium, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, market gardening, olericulture, orcharding, pomiculture, posy, truck gardening, viniculture, wildflowerROGET THESAURUS
floriculture
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.
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