Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The cultivation of fruit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fruit culture; the cultivation and improvement of fruit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Hort.) The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

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  • noun the cultivation of fruit; fruit growing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin pōmum, fruit + culture.]

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Latin pomum.

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    July 27, 2008

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