A tiller is
vegetativebranch from
an
adventitious bud arising at the
base of a
plant on or just under the
surface of the ground and growing
erect.
Normally the term tiller is used to indicate a lateral
shoot from a
cereal or grass,
but can be appropriate for any similar basal shoots of other
herbaceous plant. In grasses these comprise several units
arising from a
leaf axil, normally at the base of an older tiller, each
consisting of a
stem (or culm)
, leaves and
axillary
bud (eventually with basal
roots), it
usually refers to the
secondary
tillers off the main shoot.
A farm implement used to
break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and
conservation of moisture)
To Till
[ Verb ]
1.
To form tillers
< of a plant > To branch
profusely from the base, becoming brushier.
2.
To prepares the soil for the planting of crops
or seeding. Work land as by ploughing,
harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation;
"till the soil" to prepare the soil for seeding
