Citriculturist

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who focuses on growing citrus plants to ensure fruit yield
2. A specialist involved in the agricultural practices related to cultivating citrus trees for their edible products
3. A person who grows and manages citrus plants for producing fruit

Etymology: "Citriculturist" is a plain technical formation: it combines "citriculture," the cultivation of citrus fruits, with the suffix "-ist," which marks a person who practises or specialises in something. A citriculturist is therefore someone who grows citrus fruit for a living or as a field of study. The first half of the word carries the Latin root. "Citrus" is the Latin name for the citron tree and its fruit, and "culture," from Latin "cultura," meaning cultivation or tending, gives the second element of "citriculture." Joined together, the two parts describe the work of tending citrus crops, and "-ist" then turns that activity into a label for the person doing it. The "-ist" ending is one of English's most productive agent suffixes, which is why it can be attached to a compound like this without any change in meaning. The result is a transparent word: once you know the two parts, the sense is already in the spelling.

Synonyms: citrus grower, citrus farmer