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species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation. [Written also pæony, and piony.]

of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation…

ng into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. G. Bentham. are in bold format, like collocations.

The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.

Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes. [R.]

Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.

Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

en too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind. Burke. An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope. Hawthorne.

Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Cultivation on the earth; agriculture. [R.] -- Ter`ra*cul"tur*al, a. [R.]

A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips. Sir T. Browne.

A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

The cultivation of the vine, esp. for making wine; viticulture.

virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or æsthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism. This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so fondly. C. Kingsley.

The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.