释义 |
ˈorchardist [f. as prec. + -ist.] One who cultivates an orchard or orchards; a fruit-grower.
1794T. S. D. Bucknall in Trans. Soc. Arts XII. 211 As I have long wished to introduce the name of orchardist, I here desire it may take place. 1862Thoreau Excurs., Wild Apples (1863) 292, I wonder all orchardists do not get a scion from that tree. 1890Chamb. Jrnl. 27 Sept. 614/1 An enormously augmented consumption of fruit, for which the British orchardist..was not prepared. |