Rosarians

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A specialist in the breeding, care, and cultivation of roses, focusing on various types through horticultural practices and garden design
2. Someone who cultivates and tends rose plants for gardening or commercial purposes
3. An individual engaged in the propagation and maintenance of roses in gardens or nurseries

Etymology: "Rosarians" is the plural of "rosarian," a person who grows and tends roses. The word is built from "rosary," which in this sense means a rose garden, with the suffix "-an" attached to name the person who works in one. The older noun "rosary" is the same word that later came to mean a string of beads used in prayer, and the two senses are unrelated in origin. Rose garden was the original meaning, so the gardener was named for the garden rather than for the flower.

Synonyms: rose growers, florists, gardeners