orchardist
- noun
- /ˈɔrʧərdɪst/
- The orchardist carefully tended to the fruit trees to ensure a bountiful harvest this season.
- apple orchardists
- commercial orchardists
- small orchardists
Examples
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Working with a handful of orchardists, Ramming has tested the peach for more than a decade.
Academic text (1994) -
Alexis is a communitarian, builder, orchardist, and environmental activist living in central Virginia.
Blog text (32) -
The publisher was well known as an innovative plant breeder and orchardist.
Academic text (2013) -
Orchardists who labor to remove them from along fence lines share the same sentiment.
Academic text (2004) -
Orchardists have come up with a variety of means to protect fruit from sunburn.
Fiction book (1999) -
These measures, while salutary, will also help corporate orchardists realize considerable savings.
Fiction book (1999) -
Sydney orchardist Ed Biel proposes another idea: the creation of an "Agricultural Enterprise Credits Scheme."
Blog text (16) -
The Cameo was discovered by an orchardist named Darrel Caudle near Dryden in the early 1980s.
Fiction book (1999) -
Fire blight's symptoms were noted by orchardists in upstate New York in 1790; today it appears in forty countries, almost around the world.
Fiction book (1999) -
Such unpredictability, Doyle Fleming tells me, is anathema to orchardists, who cannot afford to plant randomly in a world where the vast majority of apple seeds bear less than desirable fruit.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
A person who raises plants or crops to sell
A person who studies or works in farming to grow crops
A person or business that grows fruit to sell
A person who prepares and looks after land to grow crops or plants
A person who works in farming, often growing crops or raising animals
A person who grows and cares for trees to sell or protect nature
A person who studies and grows fruit trees
A person who grows plants or crops on land
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orchardist starts with orchard, a word from old English parts that mean 'plant' and 'yard', so it paints a picture of a place where trees are grown, much like a garden. The ending -ist means a person who does something, so an orchardist is someone who cares for or runs a place of fruit trees.