From HomoExcelsior

1. One that produces, especially a person or an organization that produces goods or services for sale. 2. One who finances and supervises the making and public presentation of a play, film, program, or similar work. 3. A furnace that manufactures producer gas. 4. A photosynthetic green plant or chemosynthetic bacterium, constituting the first trophic level in a food chain; an autotrophic organism.

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