cultivator

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cul=ti=va=tor

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.

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.