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Plant variety that's been bred
Answer for the clue "Plant variety that's been bred ", 8 letters:
cultivar
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Word definitions for cultivar in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1923, from culti(vated) var(iety) , coined by U.S. horticulturalist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) in "Gentes Herbarum."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Image:Daisy1web.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Osteospermum 'Pink Whirls' A cultivar selected for its intriguing and colourful flowers A cultivar is a plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation . ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cultivated variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cultivar \cultivar\ n. a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
Usage examples of cultivar.
The discussion of specific nut tree cultivars and of specific techniques to grow nut trees that might have been successful in one area and at a particular time is not a guarantee that similar results will occur elsewhere.
But look at this Zea mays and look at these primitive varieties over here, these are cultivars that were abandoned because their yield was low or they were difficult to hull, and look at the oldest one here, teosinte," she said it like a saint's name.
Your maize cultivars, that big project you've had on the burner since forever?
Stay out there for a couple of days, work on those cultivars we been gussying up.
I will develop new cultivars, plant and harvest test acreages, and protect the colony's crops and physical plant until such time as I am relieved from Battle Reflex Alert.
We must have cultivars in all the ranges that do not generally exceed forty centimeters.
She had promised to give me some plants of a new cultivar of lemon thyme, so I could try them in my garden.