cultivar
Americannoun
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cultivars
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cultivar
1920–25; blend of cultivated and variety
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They also found that the Typica variety, an early Dutch cultivar originating from either India or Sri Lanka, is likely the parent of the Bourbon variety, principally cultivated by the French.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
A “pink-champagne” cultivar adorns the National Portrait Gallery this year.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Measuring the psychotropic and other properties of a particular cultivar takes expensive DNA tests, DeAngelo explains.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023
Amsonia Blue Behemoth, a new cultivar of another mainstay native, reaches a portly 4 feet tall and is dappled with plentiful clusters of baby blue spring blossoms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
"Variety" and "cultivar" serve this purpose admirably, but it is not to be expected that all gardeners will make the distinction and adopt the word "cultivar" in ordinary parlance, at any rate immediately.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Hartman said his family took a “massive gamble” and picked out 16 of the best cultivars that they thought would grow well, planting them in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
As foragers obsess over America’s next best fruit, other people I met focus on preserving old cultivars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
"Climate change makes it easier for sure, but the main driver is the new cultivars."
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
Whilst there have been studies on how cadmium is transferred from soil to the edible part of stable crops, there is hardly any research on cadmium in cacao cultivars.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
Worst, perhaps, in the long run, the exuberant spread of the Green Revolution has pushed many traditional cultivars toward extinction, which in turn reduces the genetic diversity of crops.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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