Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in pomology; a cultivator of fruit-trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.
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- noun A person involved in
pomology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees
Etymologies
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Examples
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Every one who has studied cattle-breeding, or turned pigeon-fancier, or "pomologist," must have been struck by the extreme modifiability or plasticity of those kinds of animals and plants which have been subjected to such artificial conditions as are imposed by domestication.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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"The Pluot was game-changing in my mind," said Tom Gradziel, a pomologist at the University of California, Davis.
Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010
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"The Pluot was game-changing in my mind," said Tom Gradziel, a pomologist at the University of California, Davis.
Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010
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I would love to be a pomologist; I am very interested in apples at the moment.
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"The Pluot was game-changing in my mind," said Tom Gradziel, a pomologist at the University of California, Davis.
Floyd Zaiger: 'Pluot' Creator Continues Perfecting Fruit With Meticulous, Low-Tech Breeding Methods AP 2010
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PRESIDENT MacDANIELS: This matter of alternate bearing is one that has plagued the pomologist for a great many years, and one in which we made little progress, with apples for example, until with hormone sprays the trees could be thinned very early in the year.
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It is therefore the chief object of the modern pomologist, to obtain from seeds of the best _wildings_ new varieties wherewith to form new and profitable orchards; and which may be expected to continue in health and fertility, as the old sorts have done, for the next century.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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A bird in the orchard is a sort of scavenger and pomologist combined, and does his share in giving you a dish of fruit for dinner.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock
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The tree becomes a manipulated subject, comforting to the eye of the thrifty pomologist.
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Now and then such a tree produces superior fruit; then a discriminating pomologist discovers it, names it a new variety, and propagates it as other varieties are propagated.
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