arborist
a specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests.
Origin of arborist
1Words Nearby arborist
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use arborist in a sentence
Charap’s eight-person crew of gardeners and arborists assisted with burials, and the restoration staff helped run the crematorium, where workers alternated 16-hour, seven-day shifts.
This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns | Ryan Goldberg | November 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAfter construction on a new community next door began last year, the cypresses have turned brown, and arborists said they will not survive.
Neighbors mount effort to defend Arlington’s trees from development | Justin Wm. Moyer | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe handling of shade trees such as we have in our city streets is the work of an arborist.
An arboret is a little tree; an arborist, or arbortor, is one who studies or cultivates trees.
An expert should undoubtedly be in charge of the work, but an expert arborist, not a forester.
The art of caring for trees is called arboriculture, and one who devotes himself to it an arborist.
Special Days and their Observance | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for arborist
/ (ˈɑːbərɪst) /
a specialist in the cultivation of trees
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse