secateurs

/ˈsɛk.əˌtɜːz/

secateurs means small, handheld pruning shears.

Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, secateurs ranks #10,506 of 42,747 for Qualifying.

secateurs is pronounced /ˈsɛk.əˌtɜːz/.

Etymology

Borrowed from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur, from Latin secō + -ateur.

noun

Small, handheld pruning shears.e.g.“To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.” — 2023 August 5, Diarmuid Gavin, “It's time to give my garden a makeover”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 28:

Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

secateur 87% match — A pair of secateurs. vs secateurs →
serpette 65% match — A pruning knife with a curved blade. vs secateurs →
snips 60% match — shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs vs secateurs →
tinsnips 59% match — A kind of snips resembling scissors. vs secateurs →
pruner 58% match — A person who prunes. vs secateurs →
loppers 58% match — Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping. vs secateurs →
pincers 57% match — A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws. vs secateurs →
snipper 56% match — A tool used for snipping. vs secateurs →