horticulture

English

Etymology

17th century, from the Latin word hortus (“garden”) + culture (on the model of agriculture).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.tɪˌkʌl.tʃə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹ.tɪˌkʌl.tʃɚ/
• Hyphenation: hor‧ti‧cul‧ture

Noun

horticulture (usually uncountable, plural horticultures)

1. The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.
2. Small-scale agriculture.

Derived terms

• horticultural
• horticulturally
• horticulturist

Translations

the science of caring for gardens

• Arabic: (formal) علم وصناعَة الزراعَة
• Bulgarian: градинарство n (gradinarstvo)
• Catalan: horticultura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 園藝／园艺 (zh) (yuányì), 园艺 (zh) (yuányì)

• Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n
• Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi), puutarhanviljely, puutarhatalous
• French: horticulture (fr) f
• Galician: horticultura f
• Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba)
• German: Gartenkultur f, Hortikultur f
• Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí), κηπευτική (el) f (kipeftikí)
• Hungarian: kertészet (hu), kertművelés (hu)
• Icelandic: garðyrkjufræði f
• Italian: orticoltura (it) f
• Japanese: 園芸 (えんげい, engei), ガーデニング (ja) (gādeningu)
• Kannada: ತೋಟಗಾರಿಕೆ (kn) (tōṭagārike)
• Macedonian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo), хортикулту́ра f (hortikultúra)
• Malay: hortikultur
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• Malayalam: തോട്ടക്കൃഷി (ml) (tōṭṭakkr̥ṣi)
• Maori: ahumāra, ahuota
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hagebruk n

  Nynorsk: hagebruk n

• Occitan: orticultura f
• Plautdietsch: Goadekonnst f
• Portuguese: horticultura (pt) f
• Romanian: horticultură (ro) f
• Russian: садово́дство (ru) n (sadovódstvo), огоро́дничество (ru) n (ogoródničestvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: tuathanachas-gàrraidh m
• Serbo-Croatian: cvećarstvo, vrtarstvo, hortikultura (sh) f
• Spanish: horticultura f
• Tagalog: palahalmanan
• Tamil: தோட்டக்கலை (ta) (tōṭṭakkalai), தோட்டவியல் (tōṭṭaviyal)
• Turkish: bahçecilik (tr)
• Uyghur: باغۋەنچىلىك (baghwenchilik)
• Vietnamese: nghề làm vườn
• Volapük: gadav (vo)

small scale agriculture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: tuinderij (nl) f
• Finnish: pienviljely
• Greek: φυτοκομία (el) f (fytokomía)
• Icelandic: garðrækt f, garðyrkja f
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• Macedonian: бавчанџиство n (bavčandžistvo)
• Maori: ahumāra
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hagebruk n

  Nynorsk: hagebruk n

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ti.kyl.tyʁ/

Noun

horticulture f (plural horticultures)

1. horticulture