Definition of "orchardists" [orchardists]

• Plural form of orchardist. (noun)

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• "Winter and early spring are the seasons when many gardeners, orchardists and farmers -- fancying themselves surgeons -- approach their trees, shrubs and roses with knives, pruning shears and saws in hand, seemingly unaware that these plants are, as the Buddhists would say, sentient beings."
• "Caught in the middle were the people who sold their dirt-dry farms with those breathtaking views or their family-owned businesses that catered to ranchers and orchardists, and then sat and watched as prices rose and rents rose and their money ran out."
• "The tablets revealed that by that time gardeners and orchardists knew how to graft grapes on to salt-tolerant rootstock."