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garden
has definitions from the fields of geography,housing,botany
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[ noun ] (geography) a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)For my seedbed I use good garden soil with a little sand added to encourage rooting . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)Occasionally , you may come_across one or two bumblebees in the cold season , when you are turning_over sods in your garden , but you have_to be a really keen observer to see them at_all . |
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[ noun ] (housing,geography) a yard or lawn adjoining a house
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)McFeeley noted the immaculate lawn and gardens : each blade of grass cropped , bright and firm ; each shrub glazed with good_health . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)She was looking out at the garden . |
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[ noun ] (botany) the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Gazing at her husband 's drugged body , his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms , she saw the grandeur of his fictional world , that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)A fringe of housing and gardens bearded the top of the heights , and behind it were sandy roads leading past farms and hayfields . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)And indeed the young garden beans were brackish in her mouth . Related terms |
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[ verb ] work in the garden
Examples "My hobby is gardening" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She was personally sloppy , and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it , soaking wet , dangling from her waist , and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9837
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