GROWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grower mean? 

• GROWER (noun)
  The noun GROWER has 1 sense:

1. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

  Familiarity information: GROWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser

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)

 Context examples 

In earlier studies, the researchers successfully increased sorgoleone to make sorghum more resistant to weeds, which would help growers who do not rotate sorghum with other crops.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

In modern times, breeders have concentrated on traits such as yield, shelf life, disease resistance and stress tolerance, traits that have been economically important to growers.

(Tomato Pan-Genome Makes Bringing Flavor Back Easier, Agricultural Research Service)

For corn growers, the current assumption is that corn grain requires 1.2 pounds of nitrogen applied for every bushel produced.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

To Mr. Chestle, a hop-grower.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The results are good news for growers who hope that manipulating the plant microbiome, perhaps with probiotics, will make for healthier fields that need less fertilizer and less or no pesticides to produce good yields.

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)

Secondly, growers would spend less on buying and applying chemicals—a major part of their overhead cost.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

I suppose you don't take much interest in hops; but I am a pretty large grower myself; and if you ever like to come over to our neighbourhood—neighbourhood of Ashford—and take a run about our place,—we shall be glad for you to stop as long as you like.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It works so well that some other crops struggle to grow in fields where sorghum has been raised, causing problems for growers who want to rotate different crops in those fields.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)