Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- One who owns or conducts a nursery; a man who is employed in the cultivation of herbs, flowering plants, trees, etc., from seed or otherwise, for transplanting or for sale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who rears and sells
plants in anursery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who takes care of a garden
Etymologies
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Examples
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His savvy as a land speculator and as a nurseryman selling seedlings to the region's new arrivals made him quite a wealthy man.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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As someone who used to watch The Price Is Right with my late grandfather, a retired nurseryman, every morning, I almost take that one personally.
Is the 'New Elite' really so out-of-touch? Does it matter? Stephen Stromberg 2010
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Near Olney, nurseryman Bill Harris awoke to a thick layer of ice on his windshield, and the vegetable garden at work bore the hallmarks of that awful end of the growing season.
In Washington, a frost on election day Adrian Higgins 2010
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His savvy as a land speculator and as a nurseryman selling seedlings to the region's new arrivals made him quite a wealthy man.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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His savvy as a land speculator and as a nurseryman selling seedlings to the region's new arrivals made him quite a wealthy man.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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Ken Selody, a nurseryman at Atlock Farm in Somerset, N.J., works at a treated-lumber bench with a poured-concrete counter, for durability, and cement-block legs, for adjustability.
A Gardener's Furniture William L. Hamilton 2011
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Our apple nurseryman knew someone who could press and bottle apple juice, so we piled the back of the car high with fruit and, filled with optimism, set off to see him.
Gardens: Apple glut Naomi Slade 2010
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Biographer Howard Means supports the legend with hard-earned fact in his portrait of Chapman as a "nurseryman; religious zealot; real-estate dabbler" and even altruistic capitalist.
A Pro-Growth Strategy Bill Kauffman 2011
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His savvy as a land speculator and as a nurseryman selling seedlings to the region's new arrivals made him quite a wealthy man.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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His savvy as a land speculator and as a nurseryman selling seedlings to the region's new arrivals made him quite a wealthy man.
Kurt Michael Friese: The Hard Truth of Johnny Appleseed, and a Recipe with Hard Cider Kurt Michael Friese 2010
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