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GARDENING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cultivation of plants
Synonyms:
gardening; horticulture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gardening" is a kind of...):
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Domain member category:
garden (work in the garden)
landscape (do landscape gardening)
landscape (embellish with plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gardening"):
landscape gardening; landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)
market gardening (the growing of vegetables or flowers for market)
floriculture; flower gardening (the cultivation of flowering plants)
Derivation:
garden (work in the garden)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb garden
