plant

noun plants

1. 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. The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. 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.
3. Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. obsolete A young tree, vine, shrub, or herb; a sapling. Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of ſtubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a ſturdy ſtroke: / Or with hard Stones, demoliſh from afar / His haughty Creſt, the feat of all the War.
5. proscribed, as biologically inaccurate Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. Some plants, such as mushrooms found in the wild, are difficult to identify. Some plants are poisonous, and an inexperienced individual may make mistakes in identification of wild plants, with tragic results.
6. countable A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. The company has production plants in three countries.
7. uncountable Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction. Near-synonym: capital equipment

   Similar: capital equipment

8. Australia The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside. Nigger smoke-talks had told him of the patrol and of Felix’s mustering plant. Once he had absorbed the ‘outside’ news the night’s new the conversation started in earnest.
9. 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!
10. obsolete, slang A stash or cache of hidden goods.
11. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
12. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
13. A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.
14. obsolete The sole of the foot. Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for eaſe, or love delay.
15. dated, slang A plan; a swindle; a trick. It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you.
16. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
17. US, dialectal A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
18. A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
19. UK, obsolete, slang A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.

Similar: plant

verb plants · planting · planted

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

   Similar: seed

2. transitive To furnish or supply with plants. to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
3. transitive 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!
4. transitive To place or set something firmly or with conviction. to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
5. transitive To place in the ground. God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
6. transitive To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. It engenders choler, planteth anger.
7. transitive To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. to plant a colony
8. transitive To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. to plant Christianity among the heathen
9. transitive To set up; to install; to instate. We will plant some other in the throne.

proper noun Plants

1. countable, uncountable A surname from English.
2. countable, uncountable A surname from French.
3. countable, uncountable A surname, variant of Plante.
4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.