Nurseryman
['nɜːs(ə)rɪmən] or ['nɝsərɪmən]
Definition
(n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
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Examples
- Commend me to the nurseryman and the poulterer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He was a diffident though distinguished nurseryman, and feared that the audience might regard his bid as a foolish one. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On this principle nurserymen always prefer saving seed from a large body of plants, as the chance of intercrossing is thus lessened. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Dry swamp moss, such as nurserymen use for packing trees and plants, would be one of the very best substances for protecting the ice, if only a foot thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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