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plant /plänt/ noun- A vegetable organism, or part of one, ready for planting or lately planted
- A slip, cutting, or scion
- An offshoot
- A young person
- A sapling
- A cudgel
- Any member of the vegetable kingdom, esp (popularly) one of the smaller kinds
- Growth
- Amount planted
- The sole of the foot
- Mode of planting oneself, stand
- Something deposited beforehand for a purpose
- Equipment, machinery, apparatus, for an industrial activity
- A factory
- The buildings, equipment, etc of eg a school, university or other institution
- A bedded oyster (US)
- A thief's hoard (slang)
- A spy, detective, picket or cordon of detectives, or police trap (informal)
- An object, etc deployed so as to incriminate someone unjustly
- A deceptive trick, put-up job (informal)
- 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)
transitive verb- To put into the ground for growth
- To introduce
- To insert
- To fix
- To place firmly
- To set in position
- To station, post
- To found
- To settle
- To locate
- To place or deliver (eg a blow or a dart)
- To leave in the lurch
- To bury (slang)
- To hide (informal)
- To deploy (stolen goods, etc) in such a way as to incriminate someone
- To interpose (a question or comment) as a snare or stumbling block
- To place as a spy, etc (informal)
- To instil or implant
- To furnish with plants
- To colonize
- To stock
- To furnish or provide (with things disposed around)
- To salt (a mine) (slang)
intransitive verb To plant trees, colonists, etc ORIGIN: OE plante (noun), from L planta shoot, slip, cutting, and OE plantian (verb) plantˈable adjective plantˈage noun (Shakespeare) Plants in general plantāˈtion noun - A place planted, esp with trees
- Formerly a colony
- An estate used for growing cotton, rubber, tea, sugar, or other product of warm countries
- A large estate (Southern US)
- The act or process of introduction
- The act of planting (Milton)
plantˈer noun - A person who plants or introduces
- The owner or manager of a plantation
- A pioneer colonist
- A settler
- An instrument for planting
- An ornamental pot or other container for plants
plantˈing noun - The act of setting in the ground for growth
- The art of forming plantations of trees
- A plantation (Scot)
plantˈless adjective plantˈlet or plantˈling noun A little plant plantˈ-like adjective plantocˈracy noun - A ruling class of plantation owners and managers
- 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 - To transplant to open ground, from pot or frame
- To dispose at intervals in planting
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