reclamator

plural reclamators

1. A person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.

   Almost immediately Winn decides to move several soil reclamators from Dahkur Province to Rakantha Province—formerly a rich farming area. Like much of Bajor, the Cardassians poisoned its soil as a parting gift.

   2013, Phil Farrand, NITPICKER'S GUIDE FOR DEEP SPACE (NEXT), Dell, →ISBN

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   But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ...

   1975, Private Eye

   Humic soil reclamators as depressors of heavy metal (radionuclide) accumulation by plants A. M. Abramets and E. N. Rovdan - Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

   2006, Walter Horst, M.K. Schenk, A. Bürkert, N. Claassen, H. Flessa, W.B. Frommer, Heiner E. Goldbach, H.-W. Olfs, V. Römheld, B. Sattelmacher, U. Schmidhalter, S. Schubert, N. von Wirén, L. Wittenmayer, Plant Nutrition: Food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems through basic and applied research, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 484

   soil reclamators. Farm equipment developed by the Bajoran agricultural ministry. The reclamators allowed the Bajoran farmland, which had been poisoned by the Cardassians prior to their departure, to be detoxified and ...

   2011, Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, Debbie Mirek, The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   As reclamators moved along, they generated an electromagnetic containment field over areas immediately below them. The fields ensnared errant, high-energy particles that broke apart the subatomic bonds that held rusted vehicles, buildings ...

   2012, Aimery Thomas, Primae Noctis, Aimery Thomas, →ISBN