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Definition of Cultigen
1. Noun. (botany horticulture) A plant whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cultigen
1. a cultivar [n -S] - See also: cultivar
Medical Definition of Cultigen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultigen
Literary usage of Cultigen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"THE INDIGEN AND THE cultigen TF an author were to prepare a flora or manual of
... I trust I may be pardoned for calling such species or group a cultigen. ..."
2. The Town of San Felipe and Colonial Cacao Economies by Eugenio Piñero (1994)
"As soon as Europe developed a taste for a New World cultigen, ... Even within an
economy dominated by a single cultigen, one decaying region was supplanted ..."
3. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"Sugar cane was a new cultigen introduced by the Spaniards, and was grown in hot,
humid, lowland regions, particularly the lowland coastal areas on both the ..."
4. Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific by Ward Hunt Goodenough (1996)
"... since this cultigen was first domesticated in the Yellow River Valley about
8000 BP, and could only have reached Taiwan from the north. ..."
5. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases by Julian Inglis (1993)
"... childcare and cultigen identification, and the pastures and grasslands, where
children practice horseback riding. Cultivation tasks are taught almost ..."
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