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Noun: cultivator  'kúl-tu`vey-tu(r)
  1. Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
    - agriculturist, agriculturalist, grower, raiser
     
  2. A farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
    - tiller

Derived forms: cultivators

See also: cultivate

Type of: farm machine, farmer, granger [US], husbandman [archaic], sodbuster [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Cultivator