cultivar — meaning in English
Portuguese → English · translate English → Portuguese instead
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
- verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
- verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
- noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.
cultivate — full definition
- verb To prepare and use land for growing crops.
- verb To develop or improve a skill, relationship, or quality over time.