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Definition: Cultivar |
CultivarNoun1. A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | An organism of a kind originating and persistent under cultivation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant species. Modern cultivars are often, but not necessarily, hybrids between species; they may equally well represent particularly desirable selections from populations of a single species. Cultivars generally are identified by uniquely distinguishing names, which may be registered and trademarked. Cultivars that are still being developed and not yet ready for release to seed companies often are coded with letters (signifying the university or other organization working on the variety) and numbers.
Some varieties are so well 'fixed' or established that they 'come true from seed,' meaning that the plants from a sowing will show very little variation. Such plants are better described by the more old-fashioned terms 'variety' 'selection' or 'strain,' and leaving the term 'cultivar' to plants that are vegetatively propagated, such as roses, Hemerocallis or iris.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cultivar."
Crosswords: Cultivar |
| Non-English Usage: "Cultivar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (breed, cultivate, farm, grow, husband, improve, keep, manufacture or offer the goods to be valued, plant, polish, produce, raise, rear, reclaim, to grow), Spanish (cultivate, dig, farm, grow, keep in, plant, ranch, till, work). |
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 | The new lilac cultivar named Betsy Ross, released by Margaret Pooler of the U.S. National Arboretum, has fragrant white flowers and tolerates powdery mildew. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Margaret Pooler.. |  | New Chinese redbud cultivar named Don Egolf, released by Margaret Pooler of the U.S. National Arboretum. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Margaret Pooler.. |
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| "Cultivar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cultivar" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cultivar | 9 |
como cultivar marihuana | 6 |
como cultivar | 5 |
cultivar marihuana | 3 |
cannabis como cultivar | 2 |
bonsai como cultivar | 2 |
cultivar violeta | 2 |
cultivar glory october | 2 |
cultivar de el la marihuana | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cultivar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | cv (variety), cultivar (variety), sort (black), foraedlet sort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cv. (variety), cv (variety), cultivar (variety), variëteit (variety), teeltvariëteit, ras,soort (variety), ras (breed, race). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lajike (variety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | cv, cultivar, variété. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | cv (variety), cultivar (variety), Zuchtsorte, Sorte (brand, breed, description, grade, ilk, kind, sort, species, strain, type, variety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cv (cheval-vapeur, horse power, horsepower, variety, Virtual Circuit), cultivar (variety), varietà (breed, differentness, disparity, kind, variety, variousness, vaudeville), razza (breed, ilk, kind, race, Ray, skate, sort, stock, strain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재배 í'ˆì •. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ultivarcay cultivar (cultivate, dig, farm, grow, keep in, plant, ranch, till, work). (various references) cultivar, sort (assortment, description, dye, fashion, grade, kidney, kind, manner, order, run, sort, strain, stripe, type, variety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cultivar": cultivars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-r-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: curtail, victual, virtual. | |
-2 letters: citral, curial, curtal, rictal, ritual, uracil, uratic. | |
-3 letters: aulic, auric, cavil, clavi, culti, curia, rival, tical, trail, triac, trial, ultra, urial, vatic, vault, vicar, viral, virtu, vital. | |
-4 letters: airt, alit, aril, carl, cart, caul, clit, cult, curl, curt, laic, lair, lari, lati, liar, lira, litu, rail, rial, tail, talc, tali. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: cultivars, lucrative, revictual, victualer. | |
+2 letters: aviculture, cultivator, curatively, revictuals, ulcerative, victualers, victualler. | |
+3 letters: avicultures, circulative, countervail, cultivators, diverticula, involucrate, lubricative, lucratively, recultivate, revictualed, vascularity, ventricular, vermiculate, victuallers. | |
+4 letters: articulative, avascularity, aviculturist, avuncularity, countervails, diverticular, recultivated, recultivates, revictualing, revictualled, vermiculated, vesicularity, viticultural. | |
+5 letters: acculturative, aviculturists, circumvallate, countervailed, intravascular, lucrativeness, recultivating, reduplicative, revictualling, silvicultural, ultraviolence, vascularities, vermiculation, voluntaristic. | |
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