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means A cultivator is a person or machine that prepares and tends soil to grow crops, breaking up earth and clearing weeds so plants can thrive.
from From Latin cultivare, 'to till,' built on cultus — the past participle of colere, 'to tend, care for, or worship.' That same root branches out into culture, cult, and colony, which tells you something: to the Romans, tending a field and tending a god were spoken of in the same breath. The agent-noun ending '-or' simply names the one who does the tending. English picked up 'cultivate' by the 17th century, and 'cultivator' followed as both the careful gardener and, later, the toothed implement dragged behind a plow.
- latin root
- colere, meaning to tend, dwell, and worship
- crop or self
- word covers fields, fungi, and personal virtue alike
- tool too
- a cultivator is also a soil-loosening farm implement
- cult cousin
- shares its root with culture and cult
- patience required
- cultivation rewards the slow, punishes the impatient
john deere — american farm equipment manufacturer founded in 1837, produces millions of cultivators worldwide
massey ferguson mf 240 — popular indian tractor model with cultivator attachments, sold over 500,000 units since 1965
venus grub cultivator — hand-held garden cultivator brand, widely sold at hardware stores for small-scale gardening