growth substance noun

One of a number of substances (sometimes called plant hormones) formed in plants or synthetically, that at low concentrations have specific effects on plant growth or development

grow into

To grow big enough to fill comfortably

grow like Topsy (informal)

1. Simply to grow, apparently from nothing (as Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin assumed she did)
2. (loosely) to grow in a random, indiscriminate or unplanned way

grow on

1. To gain a greater hold on
2. To gain in the estimation of, become ever more acceptable to
3. (of seedlings) to (be stimulated to) develop into mature plants by suitable positioning, treatment, etc

grow on trees

To be readily available without effort or expense

grow out of

1. To issue from, result from
2. To pass beyond in development
3. To become too big for

grow to

1. To advance to, come to (archaic)
2. (of milk) to stick to the pan and develop a bad taste in heating (so prob Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, II.2; obsolete)

grow together

To become united by growth

grow up

1. To advance in growth, become full-grown, mature or adult
2. To spring up

plant /plänt/

1. A vegetable organism, or part of one, ready for planting or lately planted
2. A slip, cutting, or scion
3. An offshoot
4. A young person
5. A sapling
6. A cudgel
7. Any member of the vegetable kingdom, esp (popularly) one of the smaller kinds
8. Growth
9. Amount planted
10. The sole of the foot
11. Mode of planting oneself, stand
12. Something deposited beforehand for a purpose
13. Equipment, machinery, apparatus, for an industrial activity
14. A factory
15. The buildings, equipment, etc of eg a school, university or other institution
16. A bedded oyster (US)
17. A thief's hoard (slang)
18. A spy, detective, picket or cordon of detectives, or police trap (informal)
19. An object, etc deployed so as to incriminate someone unjustly
20. A deceptive trick, put-up job (informal)
21. A shot in which one pockets, or tries to pocket, a ball by causing it to be propelled by another ball which has been struck by the cue ball (snooker)

1. To put into the ground for growth
2. To introduce
3. To insert
4. To fix
5. To place firmly
6. To set in position
7. To station, post
8. To found
9. To settle
10. To locate
11. To place or deliver (eg a blow or a dart)
12. To leave in the lurch
13. To bury (slang)
14. To hide (informal)
15. To deploy (stolen goods, etc) in such a way as to incriminate someone
16. To interpose (a question or comment) as a snare or stumbling block
17. To place as a spy, etc (informal)
18. To instil or implant
19. To furnish with plants
20. To colonize
21. To stock
22. To furnish or provide (with things disposed around)
23. To salt (a mine) (slang)

To plant trees, colonists, etc

plantˈable adjective

plantˈage noun (Shakespeare)

Plants in general

plantāˈtion noun

1. A place planted, esp with trees
2. Formerly a colony
3. An estate used for growing cotton, rubber, tea, sugar, or other product of warm countries
4. A large estate (Southern US)
5. The act or process of introduction
6. The act of planting (Milton)

plantˈer noun

1. A person who plants or introduces
2. The owner or manager of a plantation
3. A pioneer colonist
4. A settler
5. An instrument for planting
6. An ornamental pot or other container for plants

plantˈing noun

1. The act of setting in the ground for growth
2. The art of forming plantations of trees
3. A plantation (Scot)

plantˈless adjective

plantˈlet or plantˈling noun

A little plant

plantˈ-like adjective

plantocˈracy noun

1. A ruling class of plantation owners and managers
2. Government by plantation owners and managers

plantˈule noun

A plant embryo

plantˈ-associaˈtion or plantˈ-formaˈtion noun

An assemblage of plants growing together under similar conditions, as in a salt-marsh or a pine-wood

plantation song noun

A style of song formerly sung by the black workers on American plantations

planter's punch noun

A cocktail consisting of rum, lime or lemon juice and sugar

plant hormones see growth substance under growth

plantˈ-house noun

A structure for growing plants of warmer climates

plantˈie-cruive /-kroov/ noun (Orkney and Shetland)

A kitchen garden, an enclosure for cabbage

plantˈ-lore noun

Folklore of plants

plant louse noun (pl plant lice)

An aphis or greenfly

plant pot noun

A pot for growing a plant in

plantsˈman or plantsˈwoman noun

A person who has great knowledge of and experience in gardening

plant out

1. To transplant to open ground, from pot or frame
2. To dispose at intervals in planting