nurseryman
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nurseryman (plural nurserymen)
- A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.
- 1890 January 8, T. H. Hoskins, edited by Charles S. Sargent, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry, volume III, number 2, New York: The Garden and Forest Publishing Co., page 19:
- More and more I am coming to the conviction that in the north the orchard-grower will do better to be his own nurseryman—that is, to grow his own trees from the ground up.
- 1974 October, Ronald Parsons, “Part I: The Village”, in Hindmarsh Town: A History of The Village, District Council and Corporate Town of Hindmarsh South Australia, page 13:
- [H]e said he was a nurseryman and gave his address as "Leawood Nursery, Glen Osmond".
Translations edit
person who rears and sells plants in a nursery
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