planter

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, page 100
   • De Rocco, the compulsive rose planter, had surreptitiously placed the rose there.2014, Andrea di Robilant, Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
   1. (historical) Any of the early English or Scottish settlers who were given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
   2. Any member of a similar landed class of (often wealthy) farm owners elsewhere, such as plantation owners whose lands are worked by farm workers, wage slaves, or slaves.
2. A box or pot for plants to be planted in, usually large and standing on the floor.
3. A machine for planting seeds or transplants.