horticulture

horticulture

English

Etymology

17th century, from the Latin word hortus (“garden”) + culture (on the model of agriculture).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.tɪˌkʌl.tʃə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹ.tɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/
• Hyphenation: hor‧ti‧cul‧ture

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Noun

horticulture (usually uncountable, plural horticultures)

1. The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.
   • 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], OCLC 156100686, page 351:

     Let any one compare the fruit of one of the largest varieties exhibited at our Shows with that of the wild wood strawberry, or, which will be a fairer comparison, with the somewhat larger fruit of the wild American Virginian Strawberry, and he will see what prodigies horticulture has effected.

2. Small-scale agriculture.

Derived terms

• horticultural
• horticulturally
• horticulturist

Translations

the science of caring for gardens

Albanian: kopshtari (sq) f Arabic: بَسْتَنَة‎ f (bastana) Armenian: այգեգործություն (hy) (aygegorcutʿyun) Azerbaijani: bitkiçilik, bağçılıq Belarusian: садо́ўніцтва n (sadóŭnictva), садаво́дства n (sadavódstva), гаро́днiцтва n (haródnictva), агаро́днiцтва n (aharódnictva), раслінаво́дства n (raslinavódstva) Bengali: উদ্যানতত্ত্ব (udẏanôtôttẇ) Bulgarian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo), растениевъ́дство n (rastenievǎ́dstvo) Catalan: horticultura f Chinese: Mandarin: 園藝／园艺 (zh) (yuányì) Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n Danish: havebrug n Dutch: tuinbouw (nl) m Estonian: taimekasvatus, aiandus Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi), puutarhanviljely, puutarhatalous French: horticulture (fr) f Galician: horticultura (gl) f Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba) German: Gartenkultur (de) f, Hortikultur f, Gartenbau (de) m Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí), κηπευτική (el) f (kipeftikí) Hebrew: גינון / גִּנּוּן‎ (he) m (ginún) Hindi: बाग़बानी f (bāġbānī), उद्यान-विज्ञान m (udyān-vigyān), बाग़कारी f (bāġkārī) Hungarian: kertészet (hu), kertművelés (hu) Icelandic: garðyrkjufræði f Indonesian: hortikultura (id) Italian: orticoltura (it) f Japanese: 園芸 (ja) (えんげい, engei), ガーデニング (ja) (gādeningu) Kannada: ತೋಟಗಾರಿಕೆ (kn) (tōṭagārike) Kazakh: бағбаншылық (bağbanşylyq), баушылық (bauşylyq) Korean: 원예(園藝) (ko) (wonye) Kyrgyz: багбанчылык (ky) (bagbançılık) Latvian: augkopība f, dārzkopība f Lithuanian: sodininkystė f Macedonian: градинарство n (gradinarstvo), хортикулту́ра f (hortikultúra) Malay: hortikultur Malayalam: തോട്ടക്കൃഷി (ml) (tōṭṭakkr̥ṣi) Maori: ahumāra, ahuota Norwegian: Bokmål: hagebruk n Nynorsk: hagebruk n Occitan: orticultura f Persian: باغبانی‎ (fa) (bâğbâni) Plautdietsch: Goadekonnst f Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n Portuguese: horticultura (pt) f Romanian: horticultură (ro) f, grădinărit (ro) n Russian: садово́дство (ru) n (sadovódstvo), огоро́дничество (ru) n (ogoródničestvo), растениево́дство (ru) n (rastenijevódstvo) Scottish Gaelic: tuathanachas-gàrraidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: цвећа́рство n, цвјећа́рство n, вртла́рство n, хортикулту́ра f Roman: cvećárstvo n, cvjećárstvo n, vrtlárstvo (sh) n, hortikultúra (sh) f Slovak: záhradníctvo (sk) n Slovene: vrtnarstvo n Spanish: horticultura f Swedish: hortikultur (sv) c Tagalog: palahalmanan Tajik: боғдори (boġdori), боғпарварӣ (boġparvarī), боғшинонӣ (boġšinonī), боғбонӣ (boġbonī), рустанипарварӣ (rustaniparvarī) Tamil: தோட்டக்கலை (ta) (tōṭṭakkalai), தோட்டவியல் (tōṭṭaviyal) Tatar: бакчачылык (tt) (baqçaçılıq) Thai: พืชกรรมสวน Turkish: bahçecilik (tr) Turkmen: bagbançylyk (tk) Ukrainian: садівни́цтво n (sadivnýctvo), горо́дництво n (horódnyctvo), росли́нництво n (roslýnnyctvo) Urdu: بَاغْبَانِی‎ f (bāġbānī) Uyghur: باغۋەنچىلىك‎ (baghwenchilik) Uzbek: bogʻdorchilik (uz) Vietnamese: nghề làm vườn Volapük: gadav (vo)

small scale agriculture

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n Dutch: tuinderij (nl) f Finnish: pienviljely Greek: φυτοκομία (el) f (fytokomía) Icelandic: garðrækt f, garðyrkja f Macedonian: бавчанџиство n (bavčandžistvo) Maori: ahumāra Norwegian: Bokmål: hagebruk n Nynorsk: hagebruk n Slovak: záhradníctvo (sk) n Spanish: jardinería (es) f

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French

Etymology

From Latin hortus (“garden”), on the model of agriculture.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ti.kyl.tyʁ/

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Noun

horticulture f (plural horticultures)

1. horticulture

Related terms

• horticole
• horticulteur

See also

• jardinage

Further reading

• “horticulture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.