horticultural
Americanadjective
adjective
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Explanation
Did you know Memorial Day weekend is the biggest horticultural event of the year? It's the time many people plant their flower and vegetable gardens. The adjective horticultural describes anything related to gardening. The Latin word for garden is hortus, and cultura means "planting and cultivation." You might be familiar with the word horticulture as a formal way to describe the science of growing plants of all kinds. Horticultural is just the adjective form of that word. If you’re headed to a plant show over the weekend, to impress your gardening club you could say you are attending a horticultural event.
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Example Sentences
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The RHS flower show has replaced the annual Sandringham Flower Show, after the estate agreed the RHS could host a horticultural show once every three years at the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The prize for winning a weigh-off is typically a couple thousand dollars, but the horticultural bragging rights are endless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Travelers marveled at it, and word of it reached the desk of William Saunders, an acquaintance of the Tibbetses and the man in charge of horticultural experiments at the gardens of the newly created U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
Uncovering changes in blossom dates and their effect on fruit yield and quality requires a lot of data, often painstakingly collected by researchers at universities and horticultural research stations.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2024
Every hardware store, garden-supply shop, and supermarket has rows of insecticides for every conceivable horticultural situation.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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