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Definition: Floriculture |
FloricultureNoun1. The cultivation of flowering plants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: FloricultureSynonym: flower gardening (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Noun: agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Floriculture |
| English words defined with "floriculture": floricultural. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Floriculture" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (floriculture). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Studies in Floriculture (1918) | |
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Business | U.S. imports were mainly used for wheat farming, horticulture and floriculture. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | Floriculture is a growth sector, and agricultural nontraditional exports now rival the mining industry in foreign exchange receipts. (references) |
India | In recent years, market growth in the ACR industry in India can be attributed to the development of a host of new applications for food processing and preservation, pharmaceuticals, computers and electronics, power generation, space and atomic research, marine air-conditioning and refrigeration, floriculture, horticulture, and aqua culture. (references) | |
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| Japan | Ota Floriculture Auction Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "floriculture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rritje e luleve, lultari. (various references) | |
Arabic | الزهارة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цветарски. (various references) | |
Czech | pìstování kvìtin. (various references) | |
Danish | dyrkning af prydplanter (flower growing), blomsterdyrkning (flower growing). (various references) | |
Dutch | sierteelt (flower growing), bloementeelt (flower growing). (various references) | |
Finnish | kukkaviljely (flower growing), kukkasviljelys. (various references) | |
French | floriculture (flower growing). (various references) | |
German | Blumenzucht (flower growing). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθοκομία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágkertészet. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemeliharaan bunga, budidaya bunga. (various references) | |
Italian | floricoltura (flower growing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 花作り (florist). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はなづくり (florist). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oricultureflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | floricultura. (various references) | |
Russian | цветоводство. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odgajanje cveća. (various references) | |
Spanish | floricultura (flower growing). (various references) | |
Swedish | blomsterodling. (various references) | |
Turkish | çiçekçilik, çiçek yetiştirme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | квітнитцтво, квітникарство. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghề trồng hoa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floriculture": floricultures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "floriculture" (pronounced 'Flo"ri*cul`ture'): Agriculture, Apiculture, architecture, Aviculture, Batture, Ceinture, horticulture, Magistrature, Nomenclature, Ostreaculture, Piscicapture, Pomiculture, Roture, sericulture, silviculture, Stirpiculture, Sylviculture, Tubulature, Viatecture, Viniculture, Viticulture. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-l-l-o-r-r-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: courtlier, couturier. | |
-4 letters: courtier, fluorite, telluric, ulterior. | |
-5 letters: cloture, clouter, collier, coruler, coulter, courier, courter, couture, crofter, cruller, culture, curlier, flirter, floruit, flouter, flueric, fluoric, flutier, friller, fruiter, loftier, lucifer, outfire, outlier, recruit, rotifer, rouille, toilful, trefoil, trifler, triller, troller, turfier, utricle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-l-l-o-r-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: floricultures. | |
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