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homegarden

homegarden noun: the yard areas surrounding a house.

Noun

homegarden (plural homegardens)

  1. The yard areas surrounding a house.
    • Based on the ideas and concerns discussed above, we want to propose a more multi-leveled approach to understanding how some of the caboclo women farmers on Ituqui Island, in Lower Amazon, Brazil, relate to their physical environment, especially their homegardens, and the implications for their...2009, Rui Murrieta, Antoinette WinklerPrins, “‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil”, in Cristina Adams, Rui...
    • Our homes were in the proposed area of submergence. We’d have to move with our friends and families, our dogs and cows, and forsake our homegardens and fields, the plants we had planted, the birds, butterflies, frogs, snakes, and other beings of this valley, and this tiny headwater of a stream we’d...2015 December, Suprabha Seshan, “Cry me a river”, in New Internationalist, number 488, New Internationalist Publications Ltd., →ISSN, page 35, column 2

Examples of homegarden in a sentence

  • For this, we will introduce aspects of the social, economic and environmental interactions of Ituqui women and their activities in homegardens.2009, Rui Murrieta, Antoinette WinklerPrins, “‘I Love Flowers’: Home Gardens, Aesthetics and Gender Roles in a Riverine Caboclo Community...
  • Today many homegardens are threatened by urbanization, industrialization of agriculture, and other challenges.2016 January, Eric Toensmeier, The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for...

Forms of homegarden

pluralhomegardens

Origin of homegarden

From home + garden.

Questions about homegarden

What does homegarden mean?
Homegarden means the yard areas surrounding a house.
How do you use homegarden in a sentence?
For this, we will introduce aspects of the social, economic and environmental interactions of Ituqui women and their activities in homegardens.
What part of speech is homegarden?
Homegarden is a noun.
What is the plural of homegarden?
The plural of homegarden is homegardens.

Words near homegarden in the dictionary

  1. homeful
  2. homefulness
  3. homefuls
  4. homegame
  5. homegames
  6. homegarden
  7. homegardens
  8. homegate
  9. homegirl
  10. homegirls
  11. homegoer

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