horticulturist

horticulture | American Dictionary

horticulture
noun[ U ]
us/ˈhɔr·t̬ɪˌkʌl·tʃər/
the study or activity of growing plants, esp. for decoration

horticulture | Business English

horticulture
noun [ U ]
 PRODUCTION, NATURAL RESOURCESuk /ˈhɔːtɪkʌltʃər/us
the study or activity of growing plants:
In Florida, women farmers run more than 8,000 farms and horticulture operations on their own or as partners.

horticultural

adjective
horticultural products

Examples of horticulture

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These include commercial maize production, horticulture, tree crops, dairy, and cattle ranching.
The diverse mix of crops that loosely define horticulture is reflected in the collection of 15 chapters that make up this book.
The men, in effect spiritual brothers in arms, shared interests in a diverse range of fields from linguistics to horticulture.
Botanical gardening/horticulture, on the other hand, took information and made it an integral part of the creation of a material beauty.
I fear that students of horticulture and biotechnologists may all, unfortunately, be disappointed.
The area is rich in water resources and horticulture is one of the main activities.
Parents consciously use the work at the subplot to educate their children in horticulture, plant species and related topics.
One houses workshop-type activities which are messy or noisy, such as the horticulture centre, wood workshop, recycling centre and energy centre.
Serious students of amenity horticulture and garden design will also be interested.
Therefore, an adaptation of thought, management and of technical equipment to small-scale horticulture is necessary, and farmers must be trained accordingly.
Irrigation is commonly practised, but almost exclusively for horticulture.
It is a relatively new practice in the area, since it was adopted only in the 1950s together with horticulture.
Works on garden design and horticulture flourished, published economically and geared to the new scale of the suburban householder rather than the rural gentry.
Its meaning is drawn from horticulture, where grafting refers to two kinds of process, splitting and joining.
The archaeologically visible expansion of a diversified horticulture at the expense of pastoral land use testifies to these historical currents.
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