an experienced gardener who specializes in collecting rare or interesting plants
plantswoman in American English
(ˈplæntsˌwumən, ˈplɑːnts-)
nounWord forms: plural-women
1.
a nurserywoman
2.
a horticulturist
3.
a woman with a keen interest in and wide knowledge of plants and their cultivation
Word origin
[plant + -s3 + -woman]-s an ending marking nouns as plural (boys; wolves), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs; entrails; pants; scissors), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (clothes; glasses; manners; thanks). The pluralizing value of -s is weakened or lost in a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement,as the names of games (billiards; checkers; tiddlywinks) and of diseases (measles; mumps; pox; rickets); the latter use has been extended to create informal names for a variety of involuntaryconditions, physical or mental (collywobbles; giggles; hots; willies). A parallel set of formations, where -s has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenientstates (bananas; bonkers; crackers; nuts; preggers; starkers); -woman is a combining form, used in the formation of compound words indicating a woman ofa certain type or with a certain job. Other words that use the affix -woman include: chairwoman, forewoman, spokeswoman