Both Uses
cultivate
in
The Jungle Book
(Edited)
- He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts,
p. 22.6 *cultivated = where crops are gown
- It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.
p. 153.7cultivated = with plants cared for by humans
Definitions:
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(1)
(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.