20 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Plants > Horticulture
Horticulture
Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.
Industry: Plants
Add a new termContributors in Horticulture
Horticulture
Girdle
Plants; Horticulture
To intentionally remove bark for grafting or to kill a plant. The choking of a branch by a wire or other material, most often in the stems of woody plants that have been tied to tightly to a stake or ...
Fruticose/fruticosa/fruticosum/fruticosus
Plants; Horticulture
Shrubby or shrub-like, in the sense of the stems being woody. Often in a genus of smaller form.
Genus
Plants; Horticulture
A group of species possessing fundamental traits in common but differing in other lesser characteristics.
Germination
Plants; Horticulture
Development of seeds into seedlings or leafy young plants; the first stage in the development of a plant from seed.
