nurseryman
noun
a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
nurserymen
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pluralof nurseryman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The 20th century brought with it industrial production of poinsettias amid crafty horticulture and Hollywood marketing by father-son nurserymen at the Ecke Ranch in Southern California.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
But pioneering Florida nurserymen preferred his grapefruit to more convenient varieties, and understandably: Bracing and complex, simultaneously sweet and tart, they taste — at least to anyone with a memory — like grapefruit.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2017
Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of our Western nurserymen find great advantage from the use of this digger in their free soils, and also for root pruning trees that are to remain in the rows.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
