Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A race or variety of a plant that has been created or selected intentionally and maintained through cultivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
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- noun A
cultivated variety of a plantspecies orhybrid of two species.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This particular cultivar is ‘Oranges and Lemons,’ my favorites.
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This particular cultivar is ‘Oranges and Lemons,’ my favorites.
Gaillardia: My favorite yellow in the garden « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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Liriope Big Blue’This lilyturf cultivar is a tufted, grass-like perennial which typically grows 12-18″ high (sometimes to 2′) and features a clump of strap-like, arching, glossy, dark green leaves (1″ wide).
Don’t Monkey Around: It’s time to trim your Monkey Grass « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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A cultivar is a cultivated variety that has desirable attributes that are distinct from other cultivars.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A cultivar is a cultivated variety that has desirable attributes that are distinct from other cultivars.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A cultivar is a cultivated variety that has desirable attributes that are distinct from other cultivars.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One of the best varieties of this species, known as the cultivar
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Plants of this group, that may be grown from seed and which do show a limited variability, are distinguished from botanical varieties by placing them in a new category called cultivar (a name coined long ago by L.H. Bailey and meaning, a variety from cultivation).
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Any cultivar which is the progeny of a species cross, however remote, comes, for the purpose of the Code, under the heading of
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Personally, however, I hope and believe that eventually "cultivar" will find favour.
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Apple trees grown from seed are all different, so cultivated varieties, or cultivars, are propagated by taking cuttings from existing trees and grafting them on to rootstock to ensure the new tree and its apples are the same.
New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner Staff and agencies 2020
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