Garden
Garden (gar"d'n; 277) , noun
[Old English gardin, Old French gardin, jardin, French jardin, of German origin; compare Old High German garto, German garten; akin to Anglo-Saxon geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy.
Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
Collocations (23)
Garden balsam , an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
Garden engine , a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
Garden glass , (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
Garden house , (a) A summer house. — Beau. & Fl (b) A privy. [Southern United States]
Garden husbandry , the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold or Garden mould , rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. — Mortimer
Garden nail , a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. — Knight
Garden net , a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
Garden party , a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot , a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot , a watering pot.
Garden pump , a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears , large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
Garden spider (Zoology) , the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
Garden stand , a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff , vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloquial]
Garden syringe , a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck , vegetables raised for the market. [Colloquial]
Garden ware , garden truck. [Obsolete] — Mortimer
Bear garden or Botanic garden , etc. See under Bear, etc.
Hanging garden , See under Hanging.
Kitchen garden , a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
Market garden , a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
Garden , intransitive verb
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
Garden , transitive verb
To cultivate as a garden.