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culturist

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Cul´tur`ist
n.1.A cultivator.
2.One who is an advocate of culture.
The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not ) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man.
- J. C. Shairp

culturist
a cultivator or a person who grows things.
See also: Agriculture, Growth
a person who is well acquainted with culture, as literature, the arts, etc., and who advocates their worth to society.
See also: Art, Literature, Representation


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The silk is sold at such high rates throughout the country, but over here we are not getting adequate returns for our efforts," said Jeet Bandhan, a Seri culturist.
1972) reported producing an average of only 300 juveniles per spawning event, and until recently, researchers and commercial culturists alike were largely unsuccessful at producing the quantities of eggs and larvae needed for commercial production or stock enhancement programs.
According to Roulac, the property modernist orientation is that of the dominant Western culture, whereas the property culturist orientation is not unlike that held by most indigenous peoples.
 
 
 
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