orchardistn.
/ˈɔːtʃədɪst/, U.S. /ˈɔrtʃərdəst/ A person who cultivates an orchard or orchards; a fruit-grower.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > one who
fruiterer1612
pomarist1688
orchardist1794
orchardman1796
fruitist1824
pomologist1826
fruiter1887
pomiculturist1895
1794 T. S. D. Bucknall in Trans. Soc. Arts 12 211 As I have long wished to introduce the name of orchardist, I here desire it may take place.
1822 J. Thacher (title) The American orchardist: a practical treatise on the culture and management of apple and other fruit trees.
1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 292 I wonder all orchardists do not get a scion from that tree.
1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 27 Sept. 614/1 An enormously augmented consumption of fruit, for which the British orchardist..was not prepared.
1947 V. Palmer Cyclone 93 The land was sour and had ruined every orchardist who had tried to settle on it.
1972 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 May 60/3 Most of the farmers were orchardists, but some were vegetable growers.
2001 Isis 92 296 By 1940, synthetic hormone products that enable..orchardists to spray trees to prevent preharvest fruit drop were available commercially.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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