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cultivator
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cultivator has 2 senses
- cultivator(n = noun.person) agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil; Array is a kind of farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster
- cultivator(n = noun.artifact) tiller - a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture); Array is a kind of farm machine
has particulars: fruit grower, viticulturist
Derived form verb cultivate1
has particulars: harrow
Derived form verb cultivate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
cultivator, n. [Cf. F. cultivateur.].
- One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles. [1913 Webster]" In a broader signification it includes any complex implement for pulverizing or stirring the surface of the soil, as harrows, grubbers, horse hoes, etc." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cultivator, n.
1 a mechanical implement for breaking up the ground and uprooting weeds.
2 a person or thing that cultivates.
1 a mechanical implement for breaking up the ground and uprooting weeds.
2 a person or thing that cultivates.
ROGET THESAURUS
cultivator
Agriculture
N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.
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