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cultivar

English

Etymology

Blend of cultivated +? variety or cultigen +? variety. Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1923.

Noun

cultivar (plural cultivars)

  1. A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]

Derived terms

  • cultivar group

Hypernyms

  • (cultivated variety of plant): cultigen, cultivar group, convariety

See also

  • ICNCP

Translations

Anagrams

  • curvital

Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cultiv?re, present active infinitive of cultiv? (I till, cultivate), from cult?vus (tilled), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (I till, cultivate).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /kul.ti?va/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /kul.ti?ba/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /kul.ti?va?/

Verb

cultivar (first-person singular present cultivo, past participle cultivat)

  1. (agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)
    Synonym: conrear

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • cultivable
  • cultivador

Related terms

  • cultiu

Noun

cultivar f (plural cultivars)

  1. cultivar (a cultivated variety of a plant species)

Further reading

  • “cultivar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cultivar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “cultivar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “cultivar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cultivar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?l.ti?v?r/
  • Hyphenation: cul?ti?var

Noun

cultivar m (plural cultivars)

  1. cultivar

Hypernyms

  • variëteit

Interlingua

Verb

cultivar

  1. to cultivate

Conjugation


Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cultiv?re, present active infinitive of cultiv? (I till, cultivate), from cult?vus (tilled), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (I till, cultivate).

Verb

cultivar (first-person singular present indicative cultivo, past participle cultivado)

  1. (agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • cultivo

Further reading

  • “cultivar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cultiv?re, present active infinitive of cultiv? (to till, cultivate), from cult?vus (tilled), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (to till, cultivate).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulti?ba?/, [kul?.t?i???a?]

Verb

cultivar (first-person singular present cultivo, first-person singular preterite cultivé, past participle cultivado)

  1. (agriculture) to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • cultivo

Noun

cultivar m (plural cultivares)

  1. (botany, agriculture) cultivar

Further reading

  • “cultivar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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cultigen

English

Etymology

culti(vated) +? -gen or from Latin cultus (cultivated) +? g?ns (kind). Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?lt?d??n/, /?k?lt?d??n/

Noun

cultigen (plural cultigens)

  1. (botany, horticulture) A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection. [from 1918]
    Synonym: anthropogenic plant
    Antonym: indigen

Usage notes

Cultigen and cultivar may be confused with one another. Cultigen is a general-purpose term while cultivar is a formal classification category in the ICNCP (International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants). In practice most cultigens are cultivars.

Hyponyms

  • (plant selected by humans): cultivar

Derived terms

  • cultigenous

See also

  • indigen

References

  • Bailey, L.H. 1918. The indigen and cultigen. Science ser. 2, 47:306-308
  • Spencer, R.D. and Cross, R.G. 2007. The cultigen. Taxon 56(3):938-940

Further reading

  • cultigen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • cultigen at OneLook Dictionary Search

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