Word Finder - cultivated

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To grow plants, notably crops

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Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.

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To nurture; to foster; to tend.

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They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.

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To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

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(of a person) cultured, refined, educated

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(of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)

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(of land) farmed

She indicated a cultivated area not far from where she was working.

Geraniums and roses jasamines and japonicas are cultivated flowers.

Chick-pease are extensively cultivated in the southern provinces.

You write that in Petersburg he is spoken of as one of the most active, cultivated, and capable of the young men.

In his view the earth is all equally cultivated like a garden.

Charles Island, the most valuable of the group, is cultivated by a small colony.

Tobacco is also cultivated.

Paris mushrooms are cultivated in enormous quantities in dark underground cellars at a depth of from 60 to 160 ft.

Flax is cultivated chiefly in the northern departments of Nord, Seine- Infrieure, Pas-de-Calais, Ctes-du-Nord, hemp in Sarthe, Morbihan and Maine-ct-Loire.

At first wheat was cultivated solely in the coastal country, but experience has shown that the staple cereal can be most successfully grown over almost any portion of the arable lands within the 20 to 40 in.

The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics.

Millet, however, is still cultivated in the north of Italy, and is used as bread for agricultural laborers, and as forage when mixed with buckwheat (Sorghum saccaratum).

Flowers are cultivated, but for their own sakes, not as a feature of the Jandscape garden.

It is extensively cultivated and is much used in cookery, besides which it is excellent when pickled.

Cereals occupy about one-third of the cultivated area.

The vine is cultivated in all the states, but chiefly in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

They never, in any situation, cultivated the soil for any kind of food-crop. They never reared any kind of cattle, or kept any domesticated animal except the dog, which probably came over with them in their canoes.

Oats and potatoes are the crops most extensively cultivated.

Mr Robertson found them without education, without religion, without laws and without any system of government, but living comfortably on clearings of cultivated land.

On the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces were many serfs, mostly of subject race, settled captives, or quondam slaves, tied to the soil they cultivated and sold with the estate but capable of possessing land and property of their own.

Landowners frequently cultivated their land themselves but might employ a husbandman or let it.

The natural sciences are much cultivated in Russia.

Corn is cultivated throughout this region.

Flax is almost of as much importance as wheat, and the potato is more cultivated than in any other part of Russia.

When this happens there is great suffering from famine, for wheat is the crop upon which the people principally depend, though rye, buckwheat and oats are also cultivated.

It should be mentioned that the act provided that the Treasury might advance a portion of the money required for a line in cases where the council of any county, borough or district had agreed to do the same, and might also make a special advance in aid of a light railway which was certified by the Board of Agriculture to be beneficial to agriculture in any cultivated district, or by the Board of Trade to furnish a means of communication between a fishing-harbour and a market in a district where it would not be constructed without special assistance from the s' ate.

Rye is the staple crop, though buckwheat, flax, green crops and the potato are cultivated in considerable quantities.

Beetroot (6-8 million tons annually) for sugar is especially cultivated in Poland, the governments of Kiev, Podolia, Volhynia, Kharkov, Bessarabia and Kherson.

Valdemar at once cultivated the friendship of the new emperor; and Frederick, by an imperial brief, issued in December 1214 and subsequently confirmed by Innocent III.

Of a quick and cultivated intelligence, he had a sincere love of letters and art.

Within this portion also lie the lowlands of Bhagalpur, fertile, well planted, well watered, and highly cultivated.

Wheat has been cultivated from remote antiquity.

The surrounding country is bare and stony, with carefully cultivated patches of rich red soil among the crevices of the rock.

Beyond the mountains which flank the cultivated valleys of Semail and Tyin, to the west, there stretches the great Ruba el Khali, or Dahna, the central desert of southern Arabia, which reaches across the continent to the borders of Yemen, isolating the province on the landward side just as the rugged mountain barriers shut it off from the sea.

The evergreen oak is wild on the rocks about the Lake of Garda, and lemons are cultivated on a large scale, with partial protection in winter.

The various amounts of these needed in different cases have to be adjusted by the gardener, according to the nature of the plant, its " habit" or general mode of growth in its native country, and the influence to which it is there subjected, as also in accordance with the purposes for which it is to be cultivated, &c. It is but rarely that direct information on all these points can be obtained; but inference from previous experience, especially with regard to allied forms, will go far to supply such deficiencies.

This is the case with many of our roses, dahlias, begonias, pelargoniums, orchids and other long or widely cultivated garden plants.

The country in the neighbourhood is mountainous and bare, but the lowlands are well cultivated.

Here the palm groves begin also, and from this point to a little beyond Bagdad the shores of the river are well cultivated.

Grazing is the principal industry, but sugar-cane, tobacco and fruit are cultivated.

This fruitful region, however, was covered with villages till the frightful devastations of the 18th century; and even now it is, comparatively speaking, well cultivated.

The landlord lets his land to two or more persons jointly, who undertake to restore it to him in good condition with one-third of it interrozzito, that is, fallow, so as to be cultivated the following year according to triennial rotation.

By birth and breeding an Italian, highly gifted and widely cultivated, liberal in his opinions, a patron.

In 1856 the emperor and empress visited their Italian dominions, but were received with icy coldness; the following year, on the retirement of Radetzky at the age of ninety-three, the archduke Maximilian, an able, cultivated and kind-hearted man, was appointed viceroy.

Otto's mental gifts were considerable, and were so carefully cultivated by Bernward, afterwards bishop of Hildesheim, and by Gerbert of Aurillac, archbishop of Reims, that he was called "the wonder of the world."

Some halophytes tend - to lose their succulence when cultivated in a nonsaline soil; and some non-halophytes tend to become succulent when cultivated in a salty soil; there is, it need scarcely be stated, little or no evidence that such characters are transmitted.

Those of warmer countries cannot be cultivated in British gardens without protection from the rigours of winter; still less are they able to hold their own unaided in an unfavourable climate.

It has been the cradle of civilization, and to it is due the majority of cultivated plants.

The plains about Sabzawar are highly cultivated by the Nurzai Duranis, and each village boasts its own little mud fort.

His mind was as well cultivated as his bodily powers; he wrote well, and his observations are generally acute and accurate; he was brave, kindly and generous.