floriculture
noun
the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
floricultural
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a word derived from
floriculture.
Example Sentences
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There’s little floricultural about the Flower Shop, a 3,000-square-foot restaurant and bar that will sprout on a Lower East Side block populated by Chinese groceries and foot-massage parlors.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
Curiously, they became not a field crop but a floricultural pet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The orchids and ferns upon this horse-shoe table made the finest floricultural show that had been seen for a long time.
From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The people, especially the children, getting some information concerning the treatment of the crops from competent advisers in school and out in the arbor colonies, derive great good from their horticultural and floricultural work.
From Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall
Displays of Japanese garden and floricultural arts were exhibited in the garden.
From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
