common-or-garden

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common-or-garden

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An extension of the practice of naming domestic – and therefore non-exotic – plants as common or garden, such as common lavender/garden lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).

adjective common or garden

  1. Ireland, UK, not comparable ordinary, standard. It's just a common-or-garden fridge but it works fine.

    Similar: customary, mundane, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent

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@misc{common_or_garden_2026,
  title = {common-or-garden},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/common-or-garden},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}