transplanter

Seedling relocation tool

A transplanter is a person or device that moves plants from one location to another—typically from a seedbed or nursery to their permanent growing site.

Agricultural transplanters are machines that automate this process: The tobacco transplanter set out three thousand seedlings in an afternoon.

The term extends to anyone who transplants anything, including surgeons who transplant organs, though that usage is rare.

setting

nursery

Room for infants

orchard · polytunnel · coldframe · plot · furrow · row · container · pot · border · landscape

seedling

sapling

Juvenile woody plant

plug · rootstock · scion · grafted · bare-root · germination · propagation · cotyledon · hardened · leggy

person

gardener

One who cultivates flora

propagator · farmer · landscaper · groundskeeper · arborist · botanist · smallholder · sharecropper · florist

tool

dibble

Pointed hole-making implement

  • dibberPointed planting tool
  • trowelFlat blade for spreading
  • spadeFlat-bladed digging implement

gloves · knee-pad · furrower

machine

paddy

Flooded rice-growing field

hydraulic · self-propelled · conveyor · hopper · labor-saving

process

uprooting

Extracting from the earth

establishment · rootbound · wilting · recovery · spacing · timing · dormancy

Categories
Opposites
action direction

transplanteruprooter

One who pulls out

harvester · extractor · puller · remover · weeder

tool function

transplanterweed puller

Tool for uprooting weeds

seed drill · extractor · harvester · trowel · pruner

Phrases
Family

transplant, transplanting, transplanted, transplants, transplantation, transplanters, transplantable

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G