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
My young floricultural friend, JOE of Birmingham, who knows a bit about fruits as well as concerning orchids, let me tell you,—JOE, I say, laughs their preposterous pretensions to scorn.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 by Various
We abandoned the building in order to view the floricultural out-of-door exhibits, which covered the large spaces on the lawns adjoining it and the Wooded Island.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler
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
