| Main Entry: | horticulture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gardening |
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agriculture, arboriculture, cultivation, farming, floriculture, groundskeeping, viniculture, viticulture |
| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming, crop production |
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agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, tillage |
| Main Entry: | botany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | study of plants |
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anatomy, cytology, dendrology, ecology, floristics, genetics, horticulture, morphology, natural history, paleo-botany, pathology, physiology, phytogeography, phytology, pomology, study of flora, study of vegetation, taxonomy |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land for growing |
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agrology, agronomics, agronomy, farming, gardening, horticulture, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling, working |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | botany |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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acervate, acinaceous, barbate, botanical, carpogenous, dealbate, fasciate, flagellate, glaucous, imberbe, phyllogenetic, pullulant, soboliferous
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| Concept: | [The science of plants] Botany. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography, phytology, phytotomy; vegetable physiology, herborization, endrology, mycology, fungology, algology; flora, romona; botanic garden (garden); hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal., botanist; herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian.
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botanize, herborize.
-adjectives
botanical; botanic.
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| Concept: | [The economy or management of plants] Agriculture. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; special vitality |
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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; greenhouse, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm (abode).
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cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].
-adjectives
agricultural, agrarian, agrestic., arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.
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