cultivated plant

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cultivated
adjective
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/ˈkʌl.tɪ.veɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈkʌl.tə.veɪ.t̬ɪd/
Someone who is cultivated has had a good education and knows a lot about and likes art, music, ...
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plant
noun
uk
/plɑːnt/us
/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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This includes 533 endemic species, 230 red-listed species, 1559 species of medicinal plants and 260 species of wild relatives ofcultivatedplant.
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The replacement of the expressioncultivatedplantwith the word cultigen is not universally accepted.
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The oldest knowncultivatedplantis a parthenocarpic fig first grown at least 11,200 years ago.
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The reliability of thecultivatedplantfoods would allow the micro-bands to increase in size.
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Cultivatedplanttaxonomists do, however, work with all kinds of plants in cultivation.
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It is widely available as acultivatedplant.
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They have an extraordinary range of the wild counterparts ofcultivatedplantspecies and useful tropical plants.
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Palms are among the best known and most extensivelycultivatedplantfamilies.
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The hairy water lily is found both as acultivatedplantas well as in the wild.
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The last of the eight died in the year 2000, and the species was then only known from onecultivatedplant.
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Somecultivatedplantvarieties have pure amylopectin starch without amylose, known as "waxy starches".
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Collectively, the species in this group apart from the commoncultivatedplantare called wild tomatoes.
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In the plains east and south-east of the village agriculture predominates with olive trees as the maincultivatedplant.
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Students facing academic difficulties mocked the image of the student as acultivatedplant, he observed, but they reinforced it by blaming their own mentality before blaming the college.
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Our results reinforce the need to take into account aphid genetic diversity in breeding programmes for resistance in cultivated plants.
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Theophrastus wrote about two different sages, a wild undershrub he called "sphakos", and a similarcultivatedplanthe called "elelisphakos".
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Cultivatedplanttaxonomy is one part of the study of horticultural botany which is mostly carried out in botanical gardens, large nurseries, universities, or government departments.
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Nevertheless, in all three of these species, the hardseeded content of cultivated plants was always slightly higher than that of wild plants.
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