HORTICULTURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The cultivation of plants

Synonyms:

gardening; horticulture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("horticulture" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Domain member category:

garden (work in the garden)

landscape (do landscape gardening)

landscape (embellish with plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horticulture"):

landscape gardening; landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)

market gardening (the growing of vegetables or flowers for market)

floriculture; flower gardening (the cultivation of flowering plants)

Derivation:

horticultural (of or relating to the cultivation of plants)

horticulturist (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))