(n.) One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(2) strain 3707, a chromogenic rapid grower; C72 to C78 (av.
(3) The labels "very strong," "strong," and "mild," used in rating the tobacco quality by the growers in Thailand, were not found to reflect the relative nicotine and tar yields.
(4) Sure, I'd love to be able to never go near a supermarket, and get everything from the growers market, but that's not achievable where I live, even on a comfortable middle class income.
(5) Birds fed on the grower diet with the highest energy concentration gave significantly better FCE than those fed on the other diets.
(6) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
(7) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(8) Rice is the staple crop, and climate change risks the food security of thousands of villages,” says Chay Bounphanousay, deputy director of Laos’s National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute , where scientists and growers are working to develop new rice varieties that can withstand drought, floods and heat waves.
(9) The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) dependent 6-PG dehydrogenase was detected only in the fast growers and was more than twice as active as the NAD-linked enzyme.
(10) Persistent lymphocyte growth was observed in 39 patients, and 15 of these growers (or 41%) developed graft coronary disease.
(11) Isonitrogenous grower diets made up of corn and soybean meal or largely oats served as control diets.
(12) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(13) The state's next legal amendment is likely to establish Opec-style production caps to deter its legitimate growers from diverting excess supply to illegal dealers in neighbouring states.
(14) In an effect study 137 workers who applied pesticides for more than 10 years (average 20 years) in at least bulb disinfection and crop protection (the most important area's of exposure for the growers) were compared to 73 controls.
(15) Average daily weight gains of the starter grower period were improved for about 12%, feed conversion ratio for about 14%.
(16) Mansur Sarker is the only Bt brinjal grower in Gazipur who has had a high yield.
(17) Queensland banana farmers have called for a compensation scheme to be developed for growers whose crops have been affected by a devastating fungal disease.
(18) By the 2080s, English wine growers could harvest French grape varieties on the slopes of the Lake District.
(19) In the second experiment, males fed 15% protein during the grower period gained and weighed more than those fed 12 or 18% protein, and those fed 15% ED gained and weighed significantly more than those fed 20% EOD.
(20) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
Orchardist
Definition:
(n.) One who cultivates an orchard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orchardists who died of other causes during this period served as controls.
(2) Urine samples were obtained during pre-spraying and spraying periods from 22 non-smoking orchardists who spray large amounts of pesticides during the fruit growing season.
(3) However, clastogenic activity of urine specimens collected during the spraying period was significantly elevated (p less than 0.001) for the highly-exposed orchardists, but not for the research station personnel.
(4) Cases included all white male orchardists who died in Washington State between 1968 and 1980 from respiratory cancer.
(5) Clastogenicity of orchardists' urine was observed within 8 h of pesticide application.
(6) Genotoxicity in the urine of orchardists occupationally exposed to pesticides was investigated.
(7) Although cigarette smoking was unusually common among cases of respiratory cancer, smoking habits of the orchardists and a sample of non-orchardists who had died of other causes were quite similar.
(8) This paper will correlate data from a number of studies in which the dermal penetration of azinphosmethyl (AM) was measured in rats, rabbits, monkeys and man; and urinary alkyl phosphate metabolites were measured in orchardists exposed to AM.
(9) The cause of the excess mortality from respiratory cancer among Washington State orchardists remains unknown.