Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • One who owns or conducts a nursery; a man who is employed in the cultivation of herbs, flowering plants, trees, etc., from seed or otherwise, for transplanting or for sale.

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

  • noun One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who takes care of a garden

Etymologies

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From nursery +‎ man.

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