plant
IPA: pɫˈænt
noun
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
- (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
- (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (control theory) The combination of process and actuator.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
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Examples of "plant" in Sentences
- They planted a tree in their backyard.
- The primate of plants was the oak tree.
- The poison is in the roots of the plant.
- The roots anchor the plant in the bottom.
- As the name states, the roots of the plant rot.
- The fungus attacks the roots of the banana plant.
- The ceremony starts with the planting of the trees.
- The leaves and roots of the plant are used as an insecticide.
- Yes, they were behind the plant, I was in front of the plant
- Roots provide a number of functions for the aboveground plant.
- Caliban planted their roots in the scene with unbridled metalcore.
- It is a significant fact, however, that the plant experimented with by the Commission was _cress -- a non-leguminous plant_.
- _The plant bore the "Jacks," _ standing by itself, is a complete sentence; but by using _that_ for _plant_ the whole expression is made to do the work of an adjective.
- Settle, then, which -- plant or ivy -- Dickens supposed the reader to know least about, and which, therefore, Dickens was telling him about; and you settle which word -- _plant_ or _ivy_ -- is the subject.
- That's because public utility commissions usually have to show that the power from a certain plant is needed by their customers before they can give their approval and pass on the huge costs of building the lines.
- If this is done any time in the winter, by the autumn following they will have taken good root; the ftrongeft of which layers will be then fit to plant out; whilft thofe that are weaker may be plant* ed in the nurfcry-ground, to gain ftrength.
- Juan de Sousa stood immediately on his defence, and sent advice to the viceroy and the neighbouring commanders of his danger, trusting however to the strength of his defences, and particularly to a pallisade or _bound hedge_, which he had made of the plant named _lechera_ or the _milk plant_, which throws out when cut a milky liquor which is sure to blind any one if it touches their eyes.