secateurs

UK/ˈsɛk.əˌtɜːz/

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans spoken

Secateurs are strong scissors for cutting woody stems. A pair of secateurs.

The bypass kind cuts cleanly and the anvil kind crushes, which matters for a living plant. Secateurs are always plural, like scissors and trousers.

Definitions of secateurs

1nounsecateursStrong scissors for cutting woody stems.C2
“The secateurs had been left out all winter and were useless.”

secateurs is a tool.

Also accepted in games: pruning shears

French secateurs comes from Latin secare, to cut.

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA