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horticulture 

A subsistence pattern distinguished by intensive gardening. Essentially small-scale farming, growing all manner of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and other plant products.

In societies that subsist on horticulture, there is a strong association with matrilineal families; daughters inherit the land from their mothers. The men clear a patch of forest for a garden and the women take over. This is usually accomplished by slash-and-burn.

The most important relationship in a horticultural society is usually the bond between brother and sister (as opposed to between father and son in many farming societies); a woman marries and her husband is recognized as the father of her children, husband and wife generally live separately and the main father figure for her children is their maternal uncle.
Among the societies that practice horticulture are the Maroons of Suriname, the Mosuo and Naxi of China, and numerous indigenous peoples in Indonesia and the Americas, like the Iroquois, Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Zapotec. All of these nations are traditionally matrilineal.
horticulture by Lorelili November 7, 2012
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horticulture 

The use of one word, to mean two, three or four words in a sentence.
You can lead a HORTICULTURE but you can't make her think.
horticulture by Kfur74 November 19, 2007

Horticulture 

The attempt at improving the culture of a lady of the evening.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cn't lead a whore to culture.
Horticulture by Anonymous March 7, 2003

Hoardiculture 

Collecting so much junk there are piles of random shit cluttering everywhere possible and then claiming its a cultural trend.
While visiting Jenny, a friend trips over box of dildos in the hallway cutting her knee on a roll of barbed wire.
Jenny proudly states she's into hoardiculture.
Her friend leaves to get a tetanus shot.
Hoardiculture by rapunzabel October 3, 2016

Hoardiculture 

Collecting so much junk there are piles of random shit cluttering everywhere possible and then claiming its a cultural trend.
While visiting Jenny, a friend trips over box of dildos in the hallway cutting her knee on a roll of barbed wire.
Jenny proudly states she's into hoardiculture.
Her friend leaves to get a tetanus shot.
Hoardiculture by rapunzabel October 3, 2016

morticulture 

horticulture, as practiced by poorly trained groundskeepers, which causes the mutilation and eventual death of landscape plants
The brown, leafless shrubs, pruned into stick balls, were innocent victims of morticulture.
morticulture by pinkoursula January 21, 2010

whorticulture 

The science or art of cultivating whores, 'hoes, prozzies, or skanks. equivalent to 'red lite district'. an environment subject to high jezebel output.
paul - 'hey adam, do ya wanna go to the Pubic Triangle?'
adam - 'fo' sho' paulie, that place has a thriving whorticulture, yo'
whorticulture by your mama+papa November 17, 2004
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