gardening

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

gardening
    n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: {gardening},
         {horticulture}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gardening \Gar"den*ing\, n.
   The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens;
   horticulture.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Garden \Gar"den\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gardened}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Gardening}.]
   To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to
   practice horticulture.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "gardening":
      bloom, blossom, blow, citriculture, floret, floriculture, floscule,
      flower, flower gardening, flower-growing, floweret, fruit-growing,
      groundskeeping, horticulture, hortorium, landscape architecture,
      landscape gardening, market gardening, olericulture, orcharding,
      pomiculture, posy, truck gardening, viniculture, wildflower

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