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Glossary

The glossary on this page describes all nouns that can be found in our API.
A complete Glossary of nouns used in the whole horticulture sector can be found at our generic website, see "Ornamental Horticultural Industry Glossary" under the heading Industry.

Application

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Application

Application is the way a product is applied.
To each application (mode of use) of a product a unique product code can be allocated. For example the plant Tulipa ‘Apeldoorn’ has a product code for the application ‘flower bulbs’ as well as the application ‘cut flowers’ and the application ‘house plants’.

AuctionGroup

Available in endpoint: /FHC/AuctionGroup

Certificaat Kenmerk

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/CertificaatKenmerk

Certificaat Voorschrift

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/CertificaatVoorschrift

Certificate Feature

Available in endpoint: /FLC/CertificateFeature

Certificate Type

Available in endpoint: /FLC/CertificateType

Certification Organisation

Available in endpoint: /FLC/CertificationOrganisation

CN Goods

Available in endpoint: /FLC/CnGoods

Color

Available in endpoint: /FLC/Color

Company

Available in endpoint: /FEC/Company

Company Level

Available in endpoint: /FEC/CompanyLevel

Company Location

Available in endpoint: /FEC/CompanyLocation

Company Role

Available in endpoint: /FEC/CompanyRole

Country

Available in endpoint: /ISO/Country

Cultivar

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Cultivar

Cultivar is a specialisation of a botanical species or genus at the lowest possible taxonomical level.

Currency

Available in endpoint: /ISO/Currency

Data Element

Available in endpoint: /FEC/DataElement

Exporteis Kenmerk

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/ExportEisKenmerk

Exporteis Kenmerk Per Product Groep

Available in endpoint: /FLC/ExportEisKenmerkPerProductGroep

Exporteis Kenmerktype

Available in endpoint: /FLC/ExportEisKenmerkType

Exporteis Kenmerkwaarde

Available in endpoint: /FLC/ExportEisKenmerkWaarde

Feature Group

Available in endpoint: /VBN/FeatureGroup

A feature group is a set of feature types concerning a common aspect. Examples of feature groups:

  • Botanical features
  • Quality features
  • Sorting features

Feature Type

Available in endpoint: /VBN/FeatureType

A feature type defines the type of property to which a product feature of a good (product, hardware, service) pertains. Examples of feature types are:

  • RHS main colour 1
  • Pot size
  • Stem length
  • Ripeness stadium
  • Number of flowers per stem

Feature Value

Available in endpoint: /VBN/FeatureValue

A feature value encodes a specific product property of a certain feature type. Examples of feature values are:

  • 10 cm
  • 30-15-15 cm
  • 10 % branched
  • Mixed 2 colours

Genus

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Genus

A genus is a subdivision of a taxonomical family.

GPC Attribute Type

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcAttributeType

GPC Attribute Value

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcAttributeValue

GPC Brick

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcBrick

GPC Brick Attribute

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcBrickAttribute

GPC Brick To Product

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcBrickToProduct

GPC Class

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcClass

GPC Family

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcFamily

GPC Hierarchy

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcHierarchy

GPC Name

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcName

GPC Name Type

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcNameType

GPC Segment

Available in endpoint: /FLC/GpcSegment

Issued Certificate

Available in endpoint: /FLC/IssuedCertificate

Language

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Language

Language

Available in endpoint: /ISO/Language

Loading Instruction

Available in endpoint: /FEC/LoadingInstruction

Location Type

Available in endpoint: /FEC/LocationType

Name

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Name

A name is:

  • a description of an item in a language other than the standard language
  • an alternative name
  • an abbreviation of an item in the standard language or in a translation
  • a common synonym name of an item (e.g. the product name).

For botanical names, Latin is the standard language; for all other descriptions, the standard language is Dutch.

Warning: Due to the originationg of the data, the usage of this endpoint needs extra attention. Please study the example Postman project and the Swagger documentation to understand the mechanics.

Name Type

Available in endpoint: /VBN/NameType

A name type defines what a name denotes and what’s its intent. Examples of name types:

  • Translation
  • Alternative name
  • Abbreviation
  • Short description
  • Synonym

Overig Domein

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/OverigDomein

Packaging

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Packaging

Packaging Material

Available in endpoint: /VBN/PackagingMaterial

Packaging Order Quantity

Available in endpoint: /VBN/PackagingOrderQuantity

Packaging Order Unit

Available in endpoint: /VBN/PackagingOrderUnit

Packaging Type

Available in endpoint: /VBN/PackagingType

Plant

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Plant

A plant is a botanical product of the floricultural industry, taxonomically unambiguously identified with a taxonomic ID (Plantscope) and the ID of a Floricode acknowledged supplier of plant data.

Price Delivery Term

Available in endpoint: /FEC/PriceDeliveryTerm

Product

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Product

A product is a type of good traded within the floricultural industry and identified with a product code. A product may be of botanical nature (a living plant or a cut flower), a service or hardware. When a product is not botanic, it won't have a link to a plant.

Product Feature

Available in endpoint: /VBN/ProductFeature

A product feature is a fixed property of a product, expressed as the value of a feature type. Examples of product features are:

  • Flower colorr: red
    Floricode uses the following standard colour codes: VBN-main colour, UPOV colour and RHS colour; separately a linked table is available to RGB as well.
  • VAT percentage: high
  • Selling unit: piece

Product Group

Available in endpoint: /VBN/ProductGroup

A product group is a classification of similar products in one group that’s relevant distinctive from the point of view of the production and trade.

Product Group To CN Goods

Available in endpoint: /FLC/ProductGroupToCnGoods

Regulation Type

Available in endpoint: /VBN/RegulationType

A regulation type defines the scope of a regulation.

Regulatory Feature Type

Available in endpoint: /VBN/RegulatoryFeatureType

Regulatory feature types are types of feature belonging to a product which are prescribed and should of may be specified on certain prescribed presentation positions. Therefore the regulation of feature types consists of 3 elements: feature type, regulation type and presentation order.

Sector Product

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/SectorProduct

Species

Available in endpoint: /VBN/Species

A species is a subdivision of a taxonomical genus.
From the botanical viewpoint this subdivision may consist of one or more different components (name parts):

  • Species
  • Subspecies
  • Cultivar group
  • Variety

The specific botanical subdivision of each registered product is recorded in one of the different botanical databases worldwide, among which Floricode database Plantscope. But in this code list these name parts are included and distributed as Species.

Verklaring

Available in endpoint: /NVWA/Verklaring