plant

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Pronunciation
/plænt/
/plɑːnt/
/plɑːnt/
/plænt/
Noun
15 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2 Definition

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.

3 Definition

Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

4 Definition

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

5 Definition

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

6 Definition

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

Example Sentences
  • That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7 Definition

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

8 Definition

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

9 Definition

A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

10 Definition

Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

11 Definition

A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

12 Definition

The sole of the foot.

13 Definition

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

14 Definition

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

15 Definition

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

Verb
9 definition(s)
1 Definition

To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

2 Definition

To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

Example Sentences
  • That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
3 Definition

To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Example Sentences
  • Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
4 Definition

To place in the ground.

5 Definition

To furnish or supply with plants.

Example Sentences
  • to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
6 Definition

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

7 Definition

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

Example Sentences
  • to plant a colony
8 Definition

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

Example Sentences
  • to plant Christianity among the heathen
9 Definition

To set up; to install; to instate.