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horticulturist

[hawr-ti-kuhl-cher-ist] / ˌhɔr tɪˈkʌl tʃər ɪst /


NOUN
green thumb
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
brown thumb


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“We don’t want more material than we can use,” said Charap, Green-Wood’s chief horticulturist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

President Kennedy commissioned Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon, at the time the country’s top horticulturist, to redesign the space.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

Robinson claimed they were "specially engineered" for Scottish conditions but he had actually imported them from a horticulturist in Italy at around £2 per plant.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

The park’s 93 scenic acres officially opened in 1916 and were originally designed by John McLaren, the Scottish horticulturist behind San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

In 1826 died Joseph Cradock of the "Village Memoirs," and a devoted horticulturist, aged eighty-five.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various