jmdict 1379020 Active (id#2341569)
生産者 [spec1]
せいさんしゃ [spec1]
  1. [n] {business}
    • producer
    • grower
    • maker
    • manufacturer
  2. [n] {ecology}
    • producer (in a food chain)
History:
    • A 2025-06-06 22:08:14 Jim Breen (id#2341569)
    • A* 2025-06-06 15:24:20 Sombrero1 (id#2341550)
    • Refs
      Sankoku: 
      ①〘経〙ものを生産するがわの人。
      「農業━」
      ②〘生〙食物連鎖(れんさ)で、有機物を作るもの。つまり、植物。
      (↔消費者)
      
      リーダーズ+プラスV2 has both senses as well
      
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
      │ 生産者 │ 1.894.928 │100.0% │
      ╰─ーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -13,0 +14 @@
      +<field>&bus;</field>
      @@ -17,0 +19,5 @@
      +</sense>
      +<sense>
      +<pos>&n;</pos>
      +<field>&ecol;</field>
      +<gloss>producer (in a food chain)</gloss>
    • A 2021-02-21 11:00:42 Jim Breen
    • A* 2021-02-21 10:54:02 Opencooper
    • Comments
      The J-Es lead with "producer".
    • Refs
      gg5; genius; wisdom
    • Diff
      @@ -13,0 +14,3 @@
      +<gloss>producer</gloss>
      +<gloss>grower</gloss>
      +<gloss>maker</gloss>
      @@ -15 +17,0 @@
      -<gloss>producer</gloss>
    • A 2016-07-10 10:37:22 Jim Breen
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