floriculture
/ˈflɒ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃəɹ/noun
floriculture is a noun meaning “the farming of flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-R-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floriculture is floricultures.
What does floriculture mean?
noun
- 1
the farming of flowers
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce floriculture?
- /ˈflɒ.ɹɪˌkʌl.tʃəɹ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-floriculture.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of floriculture
- floricultures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floriculture?
Floriculture appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Floriculture in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the farming of flowers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | floriculture |
| German | Zierpflanzenbau, Blumenzucht |
| Portuguese | floricultura |
| Spanish | floricultura |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.