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Horticultural

Horticultural \Hor`ti*cul"tur*al\, a. [Cf. F. horticultural.] Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
horticultural

1778, from horticulture + -al (1).

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horticultural

a. of or pertaining to horticulture, connected with gardening.

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horticultural

adj. of or relating to the cultivation of plants

Usage examples of "horticultural".

Flags looped around the ground, hardly a movement from their tips, and this year the flags of the Allies were hung in a brave display over the horticultural tent where some of the largest marrows, greenest beans and most tender potatoes in the South of England were displayed for judgement, surrounded by vivid flowers from country gardens.

While the Dunkirk survivors and the combined LDV and police teams were sweating at the tug-of-war rope that afternoon, Harry went with his mother into the horticultural tent and saw Bess, her face framed by flowers, at the end of one of the long tables.

Elizabeth could scarcely ever remember seeing him outside his wall, except at the autumn horticultural shows.

And, as I earlier mentioned, in the horticultural societies where women were a large portion of the productive work force, a type of egalitarian arrangement was indeed at work, but this was secured not by stable legal and noospheric determinants, but simply by biospheric contingencies.

Regress Express and set the Way Back Machine to medieval or horticultural or foraging or whatnot: they all had their chance.

Not only is modernity not devoid of the Goddess, her Goodness and Agape and Compassion are written all over it, with its radically new and emergent stance of worldcentric pluralism, universal benevolence, and multicultural tolerance, something that no horticultural society could even conceive, let alone implement.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

In their understandable zeal to go transrational, they often embrace any prerational occasion simply because it is nonrationalany occasion that looks biocentrically oriented, from horticultural planting mythology to rampant tribalism to blood magic and sensual glorification of a sentimental nature, all in the name, of course, of saving Gaia.

The driveway looped around a series of gardens that were living advertisements of his horticultural skills.

He either had tremendous horticultural skills or had hired a superb landscaping service.

Even though the chairs had been put away, the room was still too vivid a reminder of the horticultural salon.

Gavin was the new assistant manager, only twenty-three, a graduate of the local horticultural college.

Royal Horticultural Society forward, spreading his arms wide to herd forward a couple stragglers who would obviously have preferred to linger.

Royal Horticultural Society would flap their mouths like mynah birds, repeating every titillating detail of the debacle to anyone who cared to listen.

Aunt Hermione was invited to join the New England Horticultural Society, and had a mild flirtation with James Whitehead.