horticultural
Britishadjective
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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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Campbell is a keen botanist and has a diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society; Robertson has started learning how to mend clothes and is an avid music video fan.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Rebecca McMackin is lead horticulturalist for the American Horticultural Society and writes the Substack newsletter Grow Like Wild!
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The warmth and sunshine led to a huge increase in the insect population across the UK and aphids, the scourge of gardeners, boomed according to the Royal Horticultural Society, external.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
“At best, this is a short-term measure” as those alternatives expand, says Sridhar Gutam, a scientist at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research and founder of Open Access India, which advocates for them.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024
That evening, Bateson was traveling to the city to deliver a lecture on heredity at the Royal Horticultural Society.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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