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noun
A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, biology, botany, business, horticulture, lifestyle, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: anthropogenic plant
Antonyms: indigen
History
From culti(vated) + -gen, or from Latin cultus (“cultivated”) + gēns (“kind”). Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.
