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CUT FLOWERS

Definition: CUT FLOWERS

CUT FLOWERS

1. Flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: CUT FLOWERS

English words defined with "CUT FLOWERS": chincherincheedense blazing starFlower pieceLiatris pycnostachyaOrnithogalum thyrsoideswonder flower. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CUT FLOWERS": CUSTOMER-SERVICE CLERK, customer-service specialist, post exchange. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CUT FLOWERS

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References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage in Bolivia (reference)

  • The World Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  • The 2001 Report on Houseplants and Cut Flowers Sales: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Cut Flowers and Foliage Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Cut Flowers and Foliage Export Supplies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold (reference)

  • Postharvest Handling and Storage of Cut Flowers, Florist Greens, and Potted Plants (reference)

  • Gerbera Production for Cut Flowers and Pot Plants (Growers Handbook Series Vol 4) (reference)

  • The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers (Gardener's Supply Books) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CUT FLOWERS

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Zambia

Agricultural exports include fresh coffee, cut flowers, sugar, tobacco, groundnuts and fresh vegetables. (references)

Ecuador

Trade: Exports--$4,845 million: petroleum , bananas, shrimp, coffee, cacao, hemp, wood, fish, cut flowers. (references)

Ecuador

The United States provides markets for Ecuador's crude oil exports, shrimp, bananas, coffee, and cut flowers. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Crude oil, coal, coffee, and cut flowers are the principal legal exports. (references)

Ecuador

The principal exports are oil, bananas, shrimp, and cut flowers, which, together with emigrant remittances and tourism, are the country's leading sources of foreign income. (references)

COSTA RICA

Some non-traditional exports, such as ornamental plants and cut flowers, are also expected to suffer as a result of declining world demand and the rising cost of air transportation. (references)

Trade

Bahamas

Permits are also required to import plants and fruits - particularly bananas, vegetables, and cut flowers. (references)

Switzerland

Products under these restrictions include cattle, meat, milk and dairy products, indigenous fresh fruit and vegetables, seasonal cut flowers, cereals and forage products, wine and grape juice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CUT FLOWERS

Language Translations for "CUT FLOWERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

leikkokukat, irtokukat. (various references)

   

French

  

horticultrice de plantes en pots et de fleurs coupées (horticulturist of potted plants and cut flowers), horticulteur de plantes en pots et de fleurs coupées (horticulturist of potted plants and cut flowers). (various references)

   

German

  

Schnittblumen. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vágott virág. (various references)

   

Italian

  

giardiniere di piante in vaso e di fiori da recidere (horticulturist of potted plants and cut flowers). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

切り花 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きりばな. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utcay owersflay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

shittblommor. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CUT FLOWERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-l-o-r-s-t-u-w"

-2 letters: clotures, clouters, coulters, felworts, flouters, fructose.

-3 letters: closure, cloture, clouter, cluster, colters, colures, corslet, costrel, coulter, couters, curfews, curlews, cutlers, felwort, florets, flouter, flowers, fluster, fluters, focuser, foulest, fowlers, lectors, lofters, ourself, outflew, reflows, refocus, relucts, restful, scouter, scowler, trowels, twofers, wolfers.

-4 letters: ceorls, cerous, clefts, closer, closet, clours, clouts, coleus, colter, colure.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-l-o-r-s-t-u-w"
 

+2 letters: counterflows.

 

+4 letters: cauliflowerets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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