horticultural

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to the science or practice of growing fruit, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants

   The city's horticultural team selected drought-resistant plants for the public gardens.

Formed from horticulture + -al. Horticulture combines Latin hortus ("garden") with cultura ("cultivation"), from colere ("to cultivate"). Horticultural therefore means "connected with the cultivation of a garden."

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