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cultivar

noun
/ˈkʌltɪvɑɹ/

Etymology

Blend of cultivated + variety or cultigen + variety. Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1923.

  1. derived from *h₁weh₂-✻ — “to abandon; to give out; to leave”
  2. derived from varietās — “difference; diversity, variety”
  3. derived from varieté — “variety”
  4. compounded as cultivar — “cultivated + variety”

Definitions

  1. A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two…

    A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA