cultivar
Spanish, noun/kultiˈbaɾ/
cultivar is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,258th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cultivar is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cultivar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Linaje o cepa de una planta seleccionada por mostrar características deseables, que se traspasan de…”.
What does cultivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)
noun
- 1
masculinecultivar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trabajar la tierra para obtener productos agrícolas con mayor rendimiento del que dan naturalmente 2. Por extensión, criar animales con medios análogos, especialmente para su explotación comercial 3. Por extensión, desarrollar microorganismos en un medio adecuado para su reproducción 4. Ejercitar una habilidad o arte de manera disciplinada y sistemática.
noun: 1. Linaje o cepa de una planta seleccionada por mostrar características deseables, que se traspasan de generación en generación
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cultivar
- cultivo first-person present singular
- cultivé first-person preterite singular
- cultivado participle past
- cultivando gerund
- cultivada feminine participle past
- cultivados masculine participle past
- cultivadas feminine participle past
- cultivas indicative informal present
- cultivás indicative informal present
- cultiva indicative present singular
- cultivamos first-person indicative plural
- cultiváis indicative plural present
- cultivan indicative plural present
- cultivaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cultivabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cultivábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cultivabais imperfect indicative plural
- cultivaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cultivar?
- /kultiˈbaɾ/
- [kul̪.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
- [kul̪t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cultivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cultivar in Spanish?
cultivar appears 7.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).