Word Finder - gardens

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An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

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a vegetable garden  a flower garden

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The grounds at the front or back of a house.

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This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.  We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.  Our garden is overgrown with weeds.

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The twentieth Lenormand card.

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A cluster; a bunch.

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Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

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N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than its intended meaning in 950 BC.

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To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

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I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

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• make garden

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Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

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• farm

Were the gardens where he was born and the beach where he played as a child still there?

She began to sweat before reaching the door leading from the patio to the green blur that was the gardens over which the patio overlooked.

I didn't press her as we entered Lauritzen Gardens, and strolled the paths of public Botanical Park.

She headed for the door in the wall that led from the gardens to the exterior of the compound.

Deidre's eyes were caught by the gardens but drifted to the pine trees beyond the walls.

One note described in two sentences a Sunday trip to the Public Gardens while another mentioned three years had passed since the sisters had seen one another.

A specimen in the Zoological Gardens of London had the back and tail dark grey, the tail tipped with black, and a rufous wash on the cheeks, shoulders, flanks and outer surface of the limbs, with the under surface white.

The rose gardens cover several square miles.

Besides the Belt there are several parks and reserves, including botanical and acclimatization gardens, the so-called Ocean Beach, and two race-courses.

He also made himself very popular in Paris by his large gifts to the poor in time of famine, and by throwing open the gardens of the Palais Royal to the people.

When John Evelyn was in Paris in 1644 he saw it played in the gardens of the Luxembourg Palace.

The palace of the khan, with its gardens and lake, itself formed an inner enclosure fronting the south.

Since that year the ramparts have been levelled and their site occupied by public promenades and gardens.

The Independencia Park, formerly called Calvario Park, which occupies a hill on the west side of the city, is the largest and most attractive of the public gardens.

Here are the summer palace of the governor-general, many fine Moorish and French villas and luxurious hotels, all surrounded by beautiful gardens.

Since then it has been discovered in other botanic gardens in various parts of Europe, its two most recent appearances being at Lyons (1901) and Munich (1905), occurring always in tanks in which the Victoria regia is cultivated, a fact which indicates that tropical South America is its original habitat.

The city lies in a fertile valley shut in by vine-clad hills, and the picturesque red sandstone buildings of the old town are interspersed with orchards and gardens.

Since then many others have been obtained, and one lived for several years in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London.

The remaining 200 victims, who had escaped the bullets of the siege and survived the butchery of the river bank, were massacred afterwards and cast down the famous well of Cawnpore, which is now marked by a memorial and surrounded by gardens.

The site, which is traceable, is surrounded by gardens.

The memorial stands by the river above the church, and above again lie the Bancroft or Bank croft gardens where, in.

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.

Kampen is surrounded by beautiful gardens and promenades in the place of the old city walls, and has a fine river front.

Though feeding largely on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they are detested by the colonists.

Orchards and fruit gardens are well developed; the crown maintains two model gardens.

S., is celebrated for its gardens.

One good feature of the Russian primary school system, however, is that in many villages there are school gardens or fields; in nearly moo schools, bee-keeping, and in 300 silkworm culture is taught; while in some 900 schools the children receive instruction in various trades; and in 300 schools in slojd (a system of manual training originated in Finland).

The other part comprehends inner Persis lying northwards; it enjoys a pleasant climate and has fertile and well-watered plains, gardens with trees of all kinds, rich pasturages and forests abounding with game; with the exception of the olive all fruits are produced in profusion, particularly the vine.

The industries of the town include cotton spinning and weaving, silk spinning, the manufacture of tobacco, ropes, metal-ware, furniture, &c. The market gardens of the neighbourhood are famous, and there is a considerable shipping trade by the river and the Ludwigskanal.

Viewed from the walls Peking looks like a city of gardens.

The estate is famous for its plantations and Dutch gardens, the pinetum containing the most representative collection of araucarias, deodars and other conifers in Europe.

The place was without importance until 1612, when Shah Abbas began building and laying out the palaces and gardens in the neighbourhood now collectively known as Bagh i Shah (the garden of the shah).

The palaces, completed in 1627, are now in ruins, but the gardens with their luxuriant vegetation and gigantic cypress and orange trees are well worth a visit.

There were originally six separate gardens, all contained within one large wall but separated one from another by high walls.

At Bankside were the Bear and the Paris Gardens, used for the popular sport of bear and bull baiting; and the Globe theatre, the scene of the production of many of Shakespeare's plays for fifteen years after its erection in 1599.

The duke of York public gardens were opened in 1894.

Mingrelia and Imeretia (valley of Rion) are the gardens of Caucasia, but the high valleys of Svanetia, farther north on the south slopes of the Caucasus mountains, are wild and difficult of access.

The dwarf and pyramid trees, more usually planted in gardens, are obtained by grafting on the quince stock, the Portugal quince being the best; but this stock, from its surface-rooting habit, is most suitable for soils of a cold damp nature.

The palace is surrounded by gardens and ornamental waters - to the north the Jardin de l'Orangerie, to the south the Jardin Anglais and the Parterre, between which extends the lake known as the Bassin des Carpes, containing carp in large numbers.

Both elementary day schools and continuation schools are in many cases provided with gardens in which horticultural teaching is given.

Ever active, he employed himself in the narrower sphere of repairing the castle and improving its domains and gardens, in shipbuilding on the Clyde, and in the exercise of the virtues of hospitality and charity.

Numerous other firs are common in gardens and shrubberies, and some furnish valuable products in their native countries; but they are not yet of sufficient economic or general interest to demand mention here.

The chief object of the author, who had been naturalist to the Niger Expedition, and curator to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, was to figure the animals contained in its gardens or described in its Proceedings, which until the year 1848 were not illustrated.

The publication of the Zoological Sketches of Joseph Wolf, from animals in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, was Wolf.

Bartlett, the superin tendent of the London Zoological Society's Gardens, and that, without his assistance, Blyth'sopportunities,slenderasthey were compared with those which others have enjoyed, must have been still smaller.

Another attraction of the place is the gardens of Collodi.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars (796), an epistle to David (Charlemagne) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

Before that date Venetian shipping was built at the spot near the piazzetta, known as the terra nova, where the royal gardens now are.

A special brick structure was erected in the public gardens to receive the works of contemporary artists, both Italian and foreign.

Arab geographers and travellers of the middle ages speak in high terms of the gardens of Nisibis, and the magnificent returns obtained by the agriculturist.