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nurseryman

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nurseryman [ˈnɜːsrɪmən]
n pl -men
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) a person who owns or works in a nursery in which plants are grown
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Noun1.nurserymannurseryman - someone who takes care of a garden  
gardener
horticulturist, plantsman - an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants)
transplanter - a gardener who moves plants to new locations
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nurseryman [ˈnɜːsrɪmən] N (nurserymen (pl)) → horticultor m


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Near the edge of the table lay three or four apples left by John Spaniard, a tree nurseryman who was Doctor Reefy's friend, and who had slipped the apples out of his pocket as he came in at the door.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
He was a diffident though distinguished nurseryman, and feared that the audience might regard his bid as a foolish one.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
A nurseryman took my advice and came to settle in the place, and I preached wholesome doctrine to the poor concerning the planting of fruit trees, in order that some day they should obtain a monopoly of the sale of fruit in Grenoble.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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