Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A specialist in the care of woody plants, especially trees.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cultivator of trees; one engaged in the culture of trees: as. “our cunning arborists,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person in the practice of arboriculture; a tree surgeon

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a specialist in treating damaged trees

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin arbor, tree.]

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  • "A cultivator of trees; one engaged in the culture of trees: as. “our cunning arborists,”"

    --Century Dictionary

    March 29, 2011