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FLORICULTURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does floriculture mean?
• FLORICULTURE (noun)
The noun FLORICULTURE has 1 sense:
1. the cultivation of flowering plants
Familiarity information: FLORICULTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cultivation of flowering plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
floriculture; flower gardening
Hypernyms ("floriculture" is a kind of...):
gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)
Derivation:
floricultural (of or relating to or involving floriculture)
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