plant

[Plant]

A plant is a living thing that loves dirt, sun, and water but can’t move. That tree outside? Plant. Your dog? Not a plant. A plant can also be a factory, like a nuclear power plant.

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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Noun
a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Noun
buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"

Noun
something planted secretly for discovery by another; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

Noun
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Verb
put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students'' minds"

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Verb
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident''s apartment"

Verb
fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

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put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground; "Let''s plant flowers in the garden"

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set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"

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place into a river; "plant fish"


n.
A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

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

n.
The sole of the foot.

n.
The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

n.
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

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

n.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

n.
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

n.
To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

n.
To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

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

n.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

n.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

n.
To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

n.
To set up; to install; to instate.

v. i.
To perform the act of planting.


Plant

Plant , n. [AS. plante, L. planta.] 1. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. &hand; Plants are divided by their structure and methods of reproduction into two series, ph'91nogamous or flowering plants, which have true flowers and seeds, and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores. In both series are minute and simple forms and others of great size and complexity. As to their mode of nutrition, plants may be considered as self-supporting and dependent. Self-supporting plants always contain chlorophyll, and subsist on air and moisture and the matter dissolved in moisture, and as a general rule they excrete oxygen, and use the carbonic acid to combine with water and form the material for their tissues. Dependent plants comprise all fungi and many flowering plants of a parasitic or saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have no chlorophyll, and subsist mainly or wholly on matter already organized, thus utilizing carbon compounds already existing, and not excreting oxygen. But there are plants which are partly dependent and partly self-supporting. The movements of climbing plants, of some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of zo'94spores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary motion. 2. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." Dryden. 3. The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of clay." B. Jonson. 4. (Com.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad. 5. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang]
It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey.
6. (Zo'94l.) (a) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. (b) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. [Local, U.S.] Plant bug (Zo'94l.), any one of numerous hemipterous insects which injure the foliage of plants, as Lygus lineolaris, which damages wheat and trees. -- Plant cutter (Zo'94l.), a South American passerine bird of the genus Phytotoma, family Phytotomid'91. It has a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injury. -- Plant louse (Zo'94l.), any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families Aphid'91 and Psyllid'91; an aphid.

Plant

Plant , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.] 1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. 2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.
3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. 4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
It engenders choler, planteth anger.
5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods.
6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. 7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face. 8. To set up; to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne.

Plant

Plant, v. i. To perform the act of planting.
I have planted; Apollos watered.

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

To perform the act of planting.

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Usage Examples

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

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