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GROWER

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

Synonyms:

agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("grower" is a kind of...):

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grower"):

fruit grower (someone who grows fruit commercially)

viticulturist (a cultivator of grape vine)

Derivation:

grow (cause to grow or develop)

grow (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

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