pomology

The scientific study and cultivation of fruit.

That department of knowledge which deals with fruits; that branch of gardening which embraces the cultivation of fruit-trees or fruit-bearing shrubs. Also pomalology.

A treatise on fruits considered as esculents.

The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

The study of pome fruit and of the cultivation of such fruit.

The study of fruit in general and of the cultivation of fruit.

the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits