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horticulturist
[hawr-ti-kuhl-cher-ist]
noun
a person whose research or business involves the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
The visiting lecturer, a horticulturist from Australia, will explain some techniques to help protect and acclimatize tropical plants.
Word History and Origins
Origin of horticulturist1
Example Sentences
The court heard he had actually imported them from a horticulturist in Italy at three Euros each.
Conservatories and greenhouses, similarly, can get too hot unless shading is provided, Guy Barter, the Royal Horticultural Society's chief horticulturist, told the BBC.
For instance, even before construction began in 2022, the project built a nursery and sent horticulturists combing the hills around the site to collect about 1 million seeds from around 30 native plant species.
Sussex horticulturist Roger Parsons hopes it is still growing in a garden somewhere.
The horticulturist and broadcaster, 69, said the increasing frequency of flooding in the UK was "proving to be a much bigger problem than drought".
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