Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to a garden; relating to gardening: as, a hortulan calendar.
- noun A bird: same as
ortolan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Belonging to a garden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Belonging to a
garden .
Etymologies
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Latin hortulanus; hortus garden.
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Examples
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There is likewise the garden-willow, which produces a sweet and beautiful flower, fit to be admitted into our hortulan ornaments, and may be set for partitions of squares; but they have no affinity with other.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Whether all this be but a dream, I cannot tell, but it was haply from these lugubrous effects, that garlands of _taxus_ were usually carried at funerals, as Statius implies in _Epicedium vernae_: However, to prevent all funest accidents, I commend the tree only for the usefulness of the timber, and hortulan ornament.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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