orchardist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of orchardist
Example Sentences
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Euphorbia pulcherrima, adapted well to the southern states, and by the early 1900s, Albert Ecke, a German immigrant dairy farmer and orchardist in Eagle Rock, saw its potential as a cut flower for Christmas bouquets.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
“People come looking for their favorite varieties,” said Polly McAdam, 33, a fourth-generation orchardist who grows apples on land her family’s owned since 1779.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The story quoted the late Tom Burford, an apple historian and himself a Virginia orchardist.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
Then he dropped a word I’d never heard before: orchardist.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2015
That is why the farmer thins out the turnips; that is why the orchardist prunes his trees; and that is why the husbandman pinches the grapebuds off the trailing vines.
From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank
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