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grower
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grower has 1 sense
- grower(n = noun.person) agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil; Array is a kind of farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster
has particulars: fruit grower, viticulturist
Derived forms verb grow4, verb grow7
CIDE DICTIONARY
grower, n.
One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grower, n.
1 (often in comb.) a person growing produce (fruit-grower).
2 a plant that grows in a specified way (a fast grower).
1 (often in comb.) a person growing produce (fruit-grower).
2 a plant that grows in a specified way (a fast grower).
THESAURUS
grower
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, crofter, cropper, cultivator, designer, deviser, dirt farmer, discoverer, dry farmer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, father, founder, generator, gentleman farmer, granger, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, muzhik, organizer, originator, past master, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planner, planter, plowboy, plowman, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, rancher, ranchman, realizer, reaper, rustic, shaper, sharecropper, sire, smith, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, wright, yeoman
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