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Cultivated plant   /kˈəltəvˌeɪtɪd plænt/   Listen
Cultivated plant

noun
1.
Plants that are grown for their produce.






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"Cultivated plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... surrounding leaves negative any such idea. The artichoke theory also has not enough in its favor, although the artichoke, as well as the thistle, was probably at a later time directly pressed into service. Prof. Ascherson first called my attention to the extremely anciently cultivated plant, the safflor (Carthamus tinctoris, Fig. 15), a thistle plant whose flowers were employed by the ancients as a dye. Some drawings and dried specimens, as well as the literature of the subject, first gave me a hope to find that this plant was the archetype of this ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Cultivated plant" :   tracheophyte, weed, vascular plant



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