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Answer for the clue "Tree surgeon ", 6 letters:
pruner

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n. a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs; "untouched by the pruner's axe" [syn: trimmer ] a long-handled edge tool with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees [syn: pruning hook , lopper ]

Usage examples of pruner.

It was filled with hand tools for his new garden: a dibbler and a trowel and a claw hoe and a genuine Felco10 Professional Pruner.

Pruner had informed him with a wink that Willock was off sowing his wild oats.

The lords best plum tree, as Meris knew well (for his uncle was a skilled pruner of trees, and worked on them), was the old one in the middle of the garden, the only survivor of a row of plums grafted from scions of the kings garden in Finyatha.

The first worker held a ten-foot pole pruner, the second a clipboard.

I guess it didn't occur to me what saws and scalpels and hedge pruners will do for muscle tone,' she commented.

She saw rakes and pruners, hedge clippers, a metal can of three-in-one oil, two pairs of soiled garden gloves, piles of wooden stakes, bags of lawn seed and Hollytone, and these became like stars, like constellations floating in a mist of ecstasy.