cultivar
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- noun
- /ˈkʌltɪˌvɑr/
- Specialized
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cultivar
- Table 1. Grain yield (%) among fifteen cultivars of wheat in control and under salt stress.
- parental cultivars
- native cultivars
- potato cultivars
Examples
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Agriculturalists throughout the central Andes refer to cultivars of S. phureja as precocious (chaucha).
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Representing unique racial combinations within the study area, these cultivars have restricted ranges.
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I brought you a little something from my latest cultivar.
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And this is a mono cultivar Morayolo.
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What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions.
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"We are evaluating several of her new cherry cultivars here in Oregon.
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Consequently, activities such as selection and storage consume more labor for native cultivars than for improved varieties.
Academic text (1991) -
Evidence of a large number of cultivars suggests at least a partial persistence of diversity in these three species.
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The gardener recommended several cultivars that thrive in our local climate.
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This cultivar of tomato produces larger fruits than the standard varieties.
Synonyms
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A type of animal, plant, or small living thing with particular traits
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A group within a species with small traits passed down from parents
A plant changed or chosen by people to grow in gardens that does not grow in the wild
How Cultivated
Surface Forms
Morphology
cultivar = cultivated + variety (transparent) = cultivated + variety
The term is a contraction/blend of 'cultivated' + 'variety' and its meaning ('a cultivated variety') is directly inferable from those components.
Etymology
Cultivar comes from joining cultivate ('to grow') and variety ('a kind'). So a cultivar is a plant 'kind' that people have grown and kept because it has special traits like colour, taste or hardiness.