Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cultivation of fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fruit culture; the cultivation and improvement of fruit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hort.) The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
cultivation offruit ; fruit growing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin pōmum, fruit + culture.]
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Latin pomum.
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Examples
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I congratulate the Democratic leadership's venture into pomiculture: they have finally gotten some wood and grown a pear gwen from Ohio
Stronger role by Obama on reform may be yielding results 2010
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I congratulate the Democratic leadership's venture into pomiculture: they have finally gotten some wood and grown a pear gwen from Ohio
Stronger role by Obama on reform may be yielding results 2010
sionnach commented on the word pomiculture
With a badly kerned font this will end up looking like 'porniculture'.
/end random comment
July 27, 2008
bestiary commented on the word pomiculture
now i'm imagining all sorts of obscene flowers.
July 27, 2008
bilby commented on the word pomiculture
Not alone, beastie. Last month there was an exhibition in our gallery space called Botanica Erotica, full of close-up photos of phallic stamens, vulva-shaped petals and the like. That's where I came across fungus virilis penis effigie.
July 27, 2008