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🔊 /plænt/

🔊 /plænt/

🔊 /plænt/

🔊 /plɑːnt/

🔊 /plɑːnt/

🔊 /plænt/

noun

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.

The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.

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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.

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

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

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A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

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

That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!

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

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

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

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

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

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The sole of the foot.

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A plan; a swindle; a trick.

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

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A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

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verb

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

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

That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

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To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.

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To place in the ground.

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To furnish or supply with plants.

to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

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

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

to plant a colony

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To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

to plant Christianity among the heathen

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To set up; to install; to instate.

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