hortensial

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English

Etymology

From Latin hortensius, hortensis, from hortus (“garden”). Akin to English yard (“an enclosure”).

Adjective

hortensial (comparative more hortensial, superlative most hortensial)

(obsolete) Fit for a garden.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. , London: Jo Martyn, and Ja Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:
  such as are sative and hortensial subalternate to the other

References

“hortensial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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