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A person who specializes on the science of the cultivation of fruits.

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Usage examples (16)
  • Every one who has studied cattle-breeding, or turned pigeon-fancier, or "pomologist," must have been struck by the extreme modifiability or plasticity of those kinds of...
  • I would love to be a pomologist; I am very interested in apples at the moment.
  • "The Pluot was game-changing in my mind," said Tom Gradziel, a pomologist at the University of California, Davis.
  • A bird in the orchard is a sort of scavenger and pomologist combined, and does his share in giving you a dish of fruit for dinner.
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