plant

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.

(countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

(uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.

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.

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

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

(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

(control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.

A surname:

A surname from English.

A surname from French.

A surname, variant of Plante.

An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.

(proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.

(slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.

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

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

(UK, slang, obsolete) A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.

verb

(ambitransitive) 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.

Roots

plantaplant- · Latin · sprout, plant

Synonyms for plant

spermatophyten thallophyten polycotyledon

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