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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A neutral substance, C14H12O6, extracted from dikamali, the resinous exudation of Gardenia lucida. It crystallizes in lustrous, deep-yellow needles which melt at 163–164° C.

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Examples

  • Naow Ai aer tryin to get up enuff energee 2 go an do sum gardenin.

    if I do not acknowledge the Monday… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Spring has also started to imprint at the Cove and N donned my Mom's "gardenin' gloves" to help with the raking, and maybe sample some dirt.

    blog: De-jading 2008

  • Eye did sum gardenin ober da weakend, an eye guezz eye useded sum musclez eye not useded tu usein!

    WE HAS A PILLO - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Spring has also started to imprint at the Cove and N donned my Mom's "gardenin' gloves" to help with the raking, and maybe sample some dirt.

    blog: February 2008 2008

  • He says an 'does a' mortal thing on a system o 'his ain; Gairner Winton often says that if Sandy had been in the market-gardenin' line, he wudda grown his cabbage wi 'the stocks aneth the ground, juist to lat them get the fresh air aboot their ruits.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Auntie Flora's eyes twinkled, "Oh, yes, yes, jist _gardenin'_!" she declared, and the three Aunties burst out laughing, and Auntie Janet spread out her earth soiled hands with a comical gesture.

    In Orchard Glen Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • "Why, I thought tha 'didn't know nothin' about gardenin '," he exclaimed.

    The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911

  • "Why, I thought tha 'didn't know nothin' about gardenin '," he exclaimed.

    The Secret Garden 1911

  • Say, if she'd come poutin 'around, or said right out that she didn't see why I couldn't make myself useful now and then, I'd have announced flat that gardenin' was way out of my line.

    Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

  • You see, it was this way: there's a narrow strip down by the road where our four-acre estate sort of pinches out, and Vee had planned to do some fancy landscape gardenin 'on it -- a bed of cannas down the middle, I believe, and then rows of salvia, and geraniums and other things.

    Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

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