hop garden

English

A hop garden at a farm in Kent, England

Noun

hop garden (plural hop gardens)

1. (agriculture, British) A field, fields or farm where hops are grown.
   • 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:

     The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...].

Synonyms

• hopyard

Related terms

• hopping
• hops (flowers of the hop plant)
• oast

Translations

hop garden

• Finnish: humalisto (fi), humalaviljelmä, humalatarha
• German: Hopfengarten m
• Russian: хме́льник (ru) m (xmélʹnik)
• Swedish: humlegård (sv) c

Further reading

• Hops on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hop (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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