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arboriculturist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises arboriculture.

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

  • noun One who cultivates 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 someone trained in forestry

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Examples

  • Whether this is possible I am not sufficiently an arboriculturist to say; but Becket certainly sojourned often in the

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The author's training as a forester and his experience as a professional arboriculturist has peculiarly fitted him to speak in an authoritative and interesting way about trees and woods.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • One has not to be arboriculturist or botanist to appreciate the establishment; it is always entertaining, sometimes amusing, and appeals variously to the tastes of visitors.

    East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

  • He is a great gardener and arboriculturist, as you may have heard, for he has travelled much on the

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • But the naturalist, and especially the arboriculturist and fruit-grower, know to their cost of other tricks of the cicada, or rather of Mrs. Cicada, immortalized by

    My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

  • [Footnote] * The Earl of Ducie, who has had very large experience as an arboriculturist, does _not_ hold the view that oaks are benefited by transplanting, if the acorns are sown _in good soil.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • Another work, however, he does mention, evidently that of a practical horticulturist and arboriculturist, probably belonging to a lower status of society than himself.

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

  • At the time, the Phillips family were living in a grace-and-favour apartment in Lauderdale House, owned by Camden Borough Council - for whom Robert Phillips worked as an arboriculturist

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Upon recommendation of the Urban Forestry Commission, the Council may designate such a tree a "Heritage Tree", provided that the tree’s health aerial space and open ground area for the root system have been certified as sufficient by a qualified arboriculturist.

    Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I don’t mention this on the off-chance you happen to be a keen arboriculturist, by the way, but because they stand precisely where a satellite dish would need to point.

    Am I Missing Something? 2008

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