NURSERYMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nurseryman mean? 

• NURSERYMAN (noun)
  The noun NURSERYMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who takes care of a garden

  Familiarity information: NURSERYMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NURSERYMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes care of a garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gardener; nurseryman

Hypernyms ("nurseryman" is a kind of...):

horticulturist; plantsman (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nurseryman"):

transplanter (a gardener who moves plants to new locations)

 Context examples 

“Commend me to the nurseryman and the poulterer.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Thank you; but there is no escaping these little vexations, Mary, live where we may; and when you are settled in town and I come to see you, I dare say I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer, perhaps on their very account.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)