cultivar
Selectively bred variety
A cultivar is a plant variety produced through selective breeding and maintained by cultivation.
The word blends "cultivated" and "variety." Unlike wild plants, cultivars are deliberately developed for desirable traits—flavor, color, disease resistance, yield: The 'Honeycrisp' is a popular apple cultivar.
Cultivar names appear in single quotes in botanical writing.
Excessive stretching force
- cloneGenetically identical organism
- selectionChosen item or items
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
- crossbreedMixed-lineage organism
lineage · pedigree · heritage · genetics · propagation · grafting · rootstock · scion
Botanical organism
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- perennialRecurring each year
- annualOccurring every year
- gardenCultivated plant area
orchard · nursery · greenhouse · landscape · ornamental · flowering · fruiting · vegetable
Cultivated agricultural plants
- harvestGathering mature crops
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- fieldArea of specialty
- farmingCultivating land for food
rotation · commercial · production · commodity · seed · planting · agronomic · certified
Finest taxonomic rank
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- binomialExpression with two terms
epithet · subspecies · synonym · registration · trademark · patented · denomination · identifier
strain
Excessive stretching force
crossbreed · lineage · pedigree · heritage · genetics · propagation · grafting · rootstock · scion · domestication
plant
Botanical organism
garden · orchard · nursery · greenhouse · landscape · ornamental · flowering · fruiting · vegetable · herb
crop
Cultivated agricultural plants
farming · rotation · commercial · production · commodity · seed · planting · agronomic · certified · improved
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
binomial · epithet · subspecies · synonym · registration · trademark · patented · denomination · identifier · description
- coffeeespresso, latte, cappuccino, macchiato, americano
- classificationsclassified, hierarchical, class, unclassified, categorical
- hybridshybrid car, crossbred, mule, hybrid cars, tigon
- botanybotany, plants, plant biology, plant, plant anatomy
- taxakingdom, species, subspecies, phylum, Rodentia
- Cranberry Farmingcranberries, bog, bogs, cranberry bog, cranberry bogs
- cultivated tasteLearned appreciation for finer things
- crop cultivationGrowing food plants deliberately
- shifting cultivationMigratory crop-growing practice
- rice cultivationGrowing grain in paddies
cultivate, cultivated, cultivation, cultivating, cultivator, cultivates, cultivable, cultivars