Meanings
plural nurserymen
- A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.
[H]e said he was a nurseryman and gave his address as "Leawood Nursery, Glen Osmond".
1974 October 28, Ronald Parsons, “Part I: The Village”, in Hindmarsh Town: A History of The Village, District Council and Corporate Town of Hindmarsh South Australia, page 132 more examples
More and more I am coming to the conviction that in the north the orchard-grower will do better to be his own nurseryman—that is, to grow his own trees from the ground up.
1890 January 8, T. H. Hoskins, edited by Charles S. Sargent, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry, volume III, number 2, New York: The Garden and Forest Publishing Co., page 19Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.
1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379
Origin
Translations
Catalan planterista, planteraire
- planteristaperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
- planteraireperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
Dutch kweker
- kwekerperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
French pépiniériste
- pépiniéristeperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
German Pflanzenzüchter
- Pflanzenzüchterperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
Romanian pepinierist
- pepinieristperson who rears and sells plants in a nursery
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