Why this word is great
PLANTSMAN — [Noun] An expert on the identification and cultivation of plants. From plant (a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses) + the connective -s- + -man (a person, often male, associated with a specified activity). Unlike a botanist, who dissects a specimen to understand its function, or a gardener, who follows a plan to achieve an effect, the plantsman is a practical savant, a curator of living possibility. It is the callused thumb that tests a cutting's readiness by the crisp snap of its stem, the eye that names a sedum from its winter silhouette, and the decades-long vigil for a shy cultivar's first bloom—a life spent in quiet, tactile dialogue with things that are perpetually, and beautifully, growing.