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cultivar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • cultivate verb To prepare and use land for growing crops.
  • culture noun The shared customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life of a particular group of people.
  • farm noun Land, together with its buildings, used for growing crops or raising animals.
  • foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.
  • grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.

Senses

cultivar is used for these senses in English:

  • breed To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
  • cultivar A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]
  • cultivate To grow plants, notably crops.
  • cultivate (figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
  • culture (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
  • farm (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
  • farm To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
  • foster (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

cultivate — full definition

  1. verb To prepare and use land for growing crops.
  2. verb To develop or improve a skill, relationship, or quality over time.

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