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nurseryman

[nur-suh-ree-muh n]
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noun, plural nurs·er·y·men.
  1. a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
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Origin of nurseryman

First recorded in 1665–75; nursery + man1

Usage note

See -man.
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Examples from the Web for nurseryman

Historical Examples

  • Schwitter, the nurseryman, had proved to have a wife in an insane asylum.

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    Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • These plants were therefore the rage; and, consequently, the desiderata of the nurseryman.

  • Naturally, the nurseryman cannot grow trees of all the good apples that may be wanted.

    The Apple-Tree

    L. H. Bailey

  • Crosby was sent out about 1876 by a Mr. Crosby, a nurseryman of Billerica, Massachusetts.

  • Soon after, we find him a nurseryman and fruit-grower at Aurora.

British Dictionary definitions for nurseryman

nurseryman

noun plural -men
  1. a person who owns or works in a nursery in which plants are grown
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