Definitions for plant

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plant plant

Spelling: [plant, plahnt]

IPA: /plænt, plɑnt/

Plant is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in plant (alnpt).

Definitions for plant

noun

1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
2. an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.
3. a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
4. the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business:
5. the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation:
6. the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution:
7. Slang. something intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals.
8. Slang. a scheme to trap, trick, swindle, or defraud.
9. a person, placed in an audience, whose rehearsed or prepared reactions, comments, etc., appear spontaneous to the rest of the audience.
10. a person placed secretly in a group or organization, as by a foreign government, to obtain internal or secret information, stir up discontent, etc.
11. Theater. a line of dialogue, or a character, action, etc., introducing an idea or theme that will be further developed at a later point in the play:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, young trees, etc.
2. to furnish or stock (land) with plants:
3. to establish or implant (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.):
4. to introduce (a breed of animals) into a country.
5. to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc.
6. to bed (oysters).
7. to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface:
8. Theater. to insert or place (an idea, person, or thing) in a play.
9. to place; put.
10. to place with great force, firmness, or determination:
11. to station; post:
12. to locate; situate:
13. to establish (a colony, city, etc.); found.
14. to settle (persons), as in a colony.
15. to say or place (something) in order to obtain a desired result, especially one that will seem spontaneous:
16. Carpentry. to nail, glue, or otherwise attach (a molding or the like) to a surface.
17. to place (a person) secretly in a group to function as a spy or to promote discord.
18. Slang. to hide or conceal, as stolen goods.

Origin of plant

before 900; (noun) Middle English plaunte; in part continuing Old English plante sapling, young plant (Latin planta); in part (Old French plante) Latin planta a shoot, sprig, scion (for plant

Examples for plant

I could not succeed in finding the plant for which they had been digging.

The Chinese government banned qat earlier this year, and classified the plant as a dangerous narcotic.

Borlaug studied forestry, and then obtained a Ph.D. in plant pathology.

Now, here was a key moment: When she came to America in 2006, where was Hirsi Ali going to plant her flag?

He might plant two shots before there was a return; he let the idea slip away from him.

Since rat root comes from a plant that grows on the edge of the lake there are concerns that the plant is carrying toxins.

Now as for these rotters, I'll plant a crop of fists on their faces.

True, the plant has enemies, like everything else, enemies which it may not escape.

But, when I'm out of this, I'll hunt you down again and I'll plant you full of lead, my son!

They learn about science, plant bulbs and watch them grow, and identify birds who visit the birdhouses.