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unhorticultural

unhorticultural adjective: not horticultural.

Adjective

unhorticultural (comparative more unhorticultural, superlative most unhorticultural)

  1. Not horticultural.
    • How far more lovely to the unhorticultural eye are these wild kinds, with their graceful bending stalks, than those the Tulip's cultivation has so well succeeded in stiffening — with all their grand colour!1896, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Days and Hours in a Garden, page 116
    • "What a lovely old-English kind of garden you have," he dutifully remarked. "Flowers are a passion of mine, but of course in Harley Street—" a melancholy shake of the head dismissed that famous but unhorticultural thoroughfare from the landscape.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Forms of unhorticultural

comparativemore unhorticultural
superlativemost unhorticultural

Origin of unhorticultural

From un- + horticultural.

Questions about unhorticultural

What does unhorticultural mean?
Unhorticultural means not horticultural.
What part of speech is unhorticultural?
Unhorticultural is an adjective.

Words near unhorticultural in the dictionary

  1. unhorses
  2. unhorsey
  3. unhorsing
  4. unhorsings
  5. unhorsy
  6. unhorticultural
  7. unhosed
  8. unhospitable
  9. unhospitableness
  10. unhospitably
  11. unhospitalised

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