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Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

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parterre

Plants; Horticulture

An ornamental flower garden where beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern. A formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging ...

parvi-

Plants; Horticulture

Botanical name prefix meaning small or reduced.

peat moss

Plants; Horticulture

An organic soil additive from Sphagnum and related mosses. The partially decomposed remains of various mosses. This is a good, water retentive addition to the soil, but tends to add the acidity of ...

pedate

Plants; Horticulture

A palmately divided or compound leaf whose two lateral lobes are again cleft or divided.

pedicel

Plants; Horticulture

The stalk of a flower or fruit when in a cluster or when solitary.

peduncle

Plants; Horticulture

The stalk of a flower cluster or a single flower when the flower is solitary, or the remaining member of a reduced inflorescence.

pendula/pendulous/pendulum/pendulus

Plants; Horticulture

Weeping or drooping with branches hanging down from a central stem; a weeping or spreading cultivar.

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