plant
Pronunciation: /plɑːnt/
The English word “plant” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.
- A young tree, vine, shrub, or herb; a sapling.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- 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.
- A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- 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.
- A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin). The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old…
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