horticultural
adjective
relating to or connected with horticulture.
horticulturalist
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a word derived from
horticultural.
Example Sentences
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In this hothouse environment, rife with sibling rivalry and corporate espionage, one member of the horticulturalist family has turned up dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The discovery began when Aaron Bean, a professional horticulturalist who was helping band birds on a large outback property in Queensland, noticed an unusual plant growing in the landscape.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
But in the early 1920s, Ecke’s son, horticulturalist Paul Ecke Sr., learned a secret way to create a compact single-stemmed plant with many blooming branches that could be grown in pots indoors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
The stone, set in a serpentine ring, once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny Mellon, a US horticulturalist, philanthropist and art collector.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Sir H. Bunbury, in 1660, has given rules for selecting the finest seedling plants, with as much precision as the best recent horticulturalist could.
From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Sir Francis Darwin
