cultivar
cultivar
Definition
☆ cul·ti·var (kul′ti vär′, -vər)
noun
a variety of a plant species originating and continuing in cultivation and given a name in a modern language
Etymology: culti(vated) var(iety)
cultivar
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- derive: A. Is the cultivar derived from a sport, i.e. a stem with different characteristics from the rest of the plant?
- breed: All showed a similar response, indicating that tolerance to ozone may not be an option in breeding improved cultivars.
- grow: AGM Several Erica carnea cultivars grown at Harlow Carr have received the Award of Garden Merit.
Adjective modifier
- flowered: Several double flowered ornamental cultivars have been bred with flowers of white to purple.
- resistant: There is thus an urgent need for durable resistant potato cultivars.
- susceptible: Importance: Limited strategies exist for suppression of citrus canker on more susceptible cultivars.
- flowering: A classic easy to grow early flowering basket cultivar that seems to be forever in flower.
- vigorous: More vigorous cultivars can be pruned back harder, which will stop the center of the plant going bare.
- hybrid: Whether or not even greater uniformity and desirable combinations of traits can be achieved more readily in F1 hybrid cultivars remains an open question.
Modifies a noun
- mixture: Other control strategies include cultivar mixtures and disease tolerance.
- resistance: With no effective chemical control and only limited cultivar resistance, alternative biological control methods are being investigated.
- name: Application to register a Dahlia cultivar name To view this document you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Noun used with modifier
- barley: Spring barley cultivars were grouped on the basis of their responses to three isolates.
- wheat: Response of winter wheat cultivars to residual N in soil.
- rice: With the aid of IAEA and UNDP, China has been able to develop new, higher-yielding rice cultivars and extend them to.
- potato: There is thus an urgent need for durable resistant potato cultivars.
- winter: Response of winter wheat cultivars to residual N in soil.
- grass: Biological control can include choosing resistant turf grass cultivars or using soil bacteria to help improve the turf grasses ' health.
Preposition: of
- species: Crossing Diversity can also be achieved from crossing cultivars of the same species.
Preposition: with
- flower: Jill Bell is the resident expert:- ) Geranium macrorhizum Various cultivars with slightly different colored flowers on a theme of pink.
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