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gardenish en · ADJ

Etymology

From garden + -ish.

Meanings

1. Like, characteristic, or typical of a garden; somewhat gardenlike.
   • But I disagree with you about the gardenish landscape. The lowest mountains here terrify me far more than anything I saw in Connemara or Achill. 2013, Colm Toibin, New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families:
   • It is such a joy to see the trees all breaking into green again—you know my view at the back, well it is getting quite gardenish and rural, there is a cherrytree close by me that gladdens me every morning as I go out to look at it. 1901, John Richard Green, Leslie Stephen, Letters:

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