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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The cultivation of grapes, especially for use in making wine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The culture or cultivation of the vine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The cultivation of the vine; grape growing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The agricultural practice of growing grape vines.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin vītis, vine; see wei- in Indo-European roots + culture.]

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From Latin vītis ("vine") + cultūra ("cultivation, agriculture").

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