| 单词 | horticultural |
| 释义 | horticultural (once / 5007 pages) adj Did you know Memorial Day weekend is the biggest horticultural event of the year? It's the time many people plant their flower and vegetable gardens. The adjective horticultural describes anything related to gardening. The Latin word for garden is hortus and cultura means "planting and cultivation." You might be familiar with the word horticulture as a formal way to describe the science of growing plants of all kinds. Horticultural is just the adjective form of that word. If you’re headed to a plant show over the weekend, to impress your gardening club you could say you are attending a horticultural event. WORD FAMILYhorticultural: horticulturally+/horticulture: horticultural, horticulturist/horticulturist: horticulturists USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Ball, the chairman and CEO of W. Atlee Burpee Company, is a past president of the American Horticultural Society. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) I hope he is right, though “dry gardening” may be a better contemporary term for this horticultural niche. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) Yet when he was 8, his mom bought him a set of horticultural encyclopedias, which he promptly memorized. Seattle Times(Nov 23, 2016) adj of or relating to the cultivation of plants |
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