cultivar
pronunciation
How to pronounce cultivar in British English:
UK [ˈkʌltɪvɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce cultivar in American English:
US [ˈkʌltəˌvɑr, -ˌvɛr]
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- Noun:
- a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
Word Origin
- cultivar (n.)
- 1923, from culti(vated) var(iety), coined by U.S. horticulturalist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) in "Gentes Herbarum."
Example
- 1. Each tuber weighs one to several pounds depending up on the cultivar type and feature gray-brown , rough woody textured skin .
- 2. International cultivar registration of ornamental plant cultivars .
- 3. Polyploid breeding is a method of getting new cultivar by polyploidization and selection .
- 4. The fertilization of cultivar dazi of sweet cherry belongs to premitotic type of syngamy .
- 5. Plant nutrient heredity ; plant breeding ; low calcium resistance cultivar ; calcium deficiency .