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# grower

noun (a grower, growers)

«grower» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#m1)
2. A grower is a plant that grows in a certain way: «a fast grower», «a slow grower». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#m2)
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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x1)
- Coffee growers in Kenya pick the berries by hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x2)
- Bamboo is a very fast grower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x3)
- The grower sells his apples at the market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x4)
- Oak trees are slow growers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x5)
- I didn't like the song at first, but it's a grower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x6)
- Flower growers in the Netherlands grow millions of tulips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x7)
- We visited a tomato grower's greenhouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/#x8)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grower» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grower/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grower» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grower.html) on Mova free.