grower

«grower» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or company that grows plants, fruit or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a grower, growers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A grower is a person or company that grows plants, fruit or vegetables to sell, such as a fruit grower or a flower grower. tree →

2) A grower is a plant that grows in a certain way: «a fast grower», «a slow grower». tree →

3) (informal) Something that is «a grower» is a song, show or thing you do not like at first but come to like more and more. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and farming lessons growers produce food; in gardening it describes how plants grow. In everyday talk about music: «That song's a grower». Phrases: «fruit grower», «a fast grower», «tomato grower».

examples

• My uncle is a strawberry grower. tree →
• Coffee growers in Kenya pick the berries by hand. tree →
• Bamboo is a very fast grower. tree →
• The grower sells his apples at the market. tree →
• Oak trees are slow growers. tree →
• I didn't like the song at first, but it's a grower. tree →
• Flower growers in the Netherlands grow millions of tulips. tree →
• We visited a tomato grower's greenhouse. tree →

note

Countable. Made from grow + er, like «farmer». Grow is irregular (grow, grew, grown), but grower is simply «someone who grows».

In the corpora

• Ukraine is one of the world's biggest sunflower growers and sells more sunflower oil than any other country.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.