cultivarn.
/ˈkʌltᵻvɑː/, U.S. /ˈkəltəˌvɑr/ Botany and Horticulture.
A plant variety that has arisen or persists only in cultivation; abbreviated cv.The cultivar epithet of a plant variety is typically given after the scientific Latin binomial and enclosed in single quotation marks.
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1923 L. H. Bailey in Gentes Herbarum I. iii. 113 I now propose another name, cultivar, for a botanical variety, or for a race subordinate to species, that has originated and persisted under cultivation.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) Suppl. 191 The cultivar name should be a vernacular or ‘fancy’ name markedly different from a botanical name of Latin form.
1961 New Statesman 19 May 808/2 Relatively few species are brought together from remote places, crossed and recrossed, and give rise to thousands of cultivars.
1998 E. McDonald 100 Orchids for Amer. Gardener 118 In the cultivar D. pulcherrima ‘Frank’, the flowers are uniformly vivid dark pink with white lines on the disc of the lip.
2010 National Trust Mag. Spring 49/3 There are over 25,000 cultivars to chose from, so there's a daffodil for every garden.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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