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hort.

hort. is the abbreviation of horticulture.

Meaning of horticulture

Noun

horticulture (usually uncountable, plural horticultures)

  1. (usually) The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.
    • Let any one compare the fruit of one of the largest varieties exhibited at our Shows with that of the wild wood strawberry, or, which will be a fairer comparison, with the somewhat larger fruit of the wild American Virginian Strawberry, and he will see what prodigies horticulture has effected.1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 351
  2. (usually) Small-scale agriculture.

Questions about hort.

What is hort. the abbreviation of?
Hort. is the abbreviation of horticulture.

Words near hort. in the dictionary

  1. Horstmanns
  2. Horstmans
  3. horsts
  4. Horswell
  5. horsy
  6. hort.
  7. Horta
  8. hortation
  9. hortations
  10. hortative
  11. hortatively

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