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nurseryman

noun
/ˈnəːs(ə)ɹɪmən/UK

Etymology

From nursery + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as nurseryman — “nursery + man”

Definitions

  1. A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.

    • 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.
    • [H]e said he was a nurseryman and gave his address as "Leawood Nursery, Glen Osmond".
    • Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.

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