Horticulturist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A gardener; a person interested in or practicing horticulture.

    "[…] [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place."

  2. 2
    an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) wordnet

Synonyms

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floristgardenerhorticultornurserymanplantsman

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"The loganberry, which is a hybrid of a blackberry and a raspberry, was accidentally created in the late nineteenth century by an American horticulturist."

Etymology

From horticulture + -ist.

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