[ noun ] an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) <noun.person>
Horticulturist \Hor`ti*cul"tur*ist\, n. One who practices horticulture.
A horticulturist, she wants to purchase an apartment with a greenhouse and reasons that having another name on the lease will persuade the co-op board to let her in.
Texas horticulturist T.V. Munson developed a disease-resistant rootstock and sent it to France.
Associate Editor Vicky Congdon says a staff horticulturist first tries to find the answer to a search inquiry in the association's library of hundreds of old catalogs and other sources.
The breeder was Calvin Lamborn, an Idaho horticulturist who won a previous award for a sugar snap pea.
"We've been in a real cost squeeze," said Tom Crocker, a horticulturist with the University of Georgia Extension Service. "All our costs are going up, and we're receiving less for the nuts.