planter
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Synonyms
agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, cultivator, farmer, grower, tiller
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Black sharecroppers realized they had been cheated by local white planters. — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, "A massacre of blacks haunted this Arkansas city. Then a memorial tree was cut down.," 30 Aug. 2019 The ownership of enslaved people increased wealth for Southern planters so much that by the dawn of the Civil War, the Mississippi River Valley had more millionaires per capita than any other region. — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, "How slavery became America’s first big business," 16 Aug. 2019 Three oceans east, French West Indies planters combined their own rotisserie techniques with plein-air grilling methods of the Indigenous Peoples to develop one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated culinary contributions: the barbecue. — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, "Follow the French: A look at the French influence on cuisine around the world," 2 Aug. 2019 Many Indonesian planters would abhor this semiwilderness, worrying the understory would compete with oil palm trees for water and nutrients. — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Science | AAAS, "Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle one of the world’s most destructive crops," 11 July 2019 In Portland, planters have been placed under bridges along Naito Parkway where people might try to set up tents, while San Francisco has removed all the benches from one of its central plazas. — oregonlive.com, "Portland’s homeless campers face new obstacle: piles of boulders," 4 July 2019 Its original planters, Emanuel Goldstein and Benjamin Dreyfus, were German immigrants, and so must have understood that the best grapes are grown at elevation. — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, "Meet Brenae Royal, the young, black female farmer behind one of Sonoma’s most important vineyards," 9 Aug. 2019 Mu Design hopes to begin shipping their planters by December 2019. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, "This Smart Planter Makes Faces to Let You Know How Your Plant Is Feeling," 24 July 2019 Following the vote, council approved a resolution that will allocate nearly $800,000 in bond funds toward sprucing up the park with tables, chairs and planter boxes. — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit City Council votes to keep Spirit of Detroit Plaza downtown," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'planter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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