planter
/ˈplæntər/
noun
- A container used for growing plants, typically filled with soil and placed indoors or outdoors.
- She bought a large ceramic planter for her new fern.
- The wooden planter on the balcony holds herbs and flowers.
- We need to drill drainage holes in the bottom of this planter.
- A person who owns or manages a plantation, especially of crops like cotton, tobacco, or sugar.
- In the 1800s, a wealthy planter might own hundreds of acres of land.
- The cotton planter hired many workers for the harvest season.
- The sugar planter exported most of his crop to Europe.
- A machine that plants seeds or seedlings in the ground.
- The old planter broke down, so they had to plant by hand.
- Modern planters can plant multiple rows of seeds at once.
- The farmer used a mechanical planter to sow corn across the field.