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arborist

[ ahr-ber-ist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests.


arborist

/ ˈɑːbərɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist in the cultivation of trees


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Word History and Origins

Origin of arborist1

First recorded in 1570–80; arbor 3 + -ist

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Example Sentences

Charap’s eight-person crew of gardeners and arborists assisted with burials, and the restoration staff helped run the crematorium, where workers alternated 16-hour, seven-day shifts.

After construction on a new community next door began last year, the cypresses have turned brown, and arborists said they will not survive.

The handling of shade trees such as we have in our city streets is the work of an arborist.

An arboret is a little tree; an arborist, or arbortor, is one who studies or cultivates trees.

An expert should undoubtedly be in charge of the work, but an expert arborist, not a forester.

The art of caring for trees is called arboriculture, and one who devotes himself to it an arborist.

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