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.
- Roots provide a number of functions for the aboveground plant.
- Caliban planted their roots in the scene with unbridled metalcore.
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