The article considers the lexical and word-formational variety of expressions for 'a small piece of land, usually close to a house, on which grows grass, trees, food-bearing plants and flowers', which in the standard language is refered to as vrt (garden) with the adjectives sadni, zelenjavni or cvetlični (fruit, vegetable or flower), while in Slovene dialects there are more than forty different terms. The wide range of dialect expressions will be grouped in accordance with the root of the word, while with regard to distribution, the lexemes, interpreted with the help of a linguistic maps, will be grouped according to sufixal elements.
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