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.
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.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
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.
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.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
A plan; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place in the ground.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.