cultigenn.
/ˈkʌltᵻdʒɛn/, /ˈkʌltᵻdʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈkəltədʒ(ə)n/ A cultivated plant species or variety of which no wild ancestor has been identified.
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1918 L. H. Bailey in Science 29 Mar. 306/2 If an author were to prepare a flora..of cultivated plants..he would come hard against the fact that he deals with two..types of species. One..has recorded origin... The other..is a domesticated group of which the origin may be unknown or indefinite... I trust I may be pardoned for calling such species or group a cultigen.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxv. 480 When a cultigen is increased by propagation, the production of sufficient stock ‘seed’ for commercial introduction is simplified.
1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) ix. 402 Some of the most important cultigens [of North America] were introduced,..notably beans, squash and maize.
2010 R. L. Johnson et al. National Geogr. Guide Med. Herbs 154/1 Garlic is not known in the wild. Rather it is deemed a cultigen, evolved over millennia of human interaction with the plant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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