plant

noun

1. 1.

   botany

   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.

2. 2.

   botany

   A living organism lacking the power of locomotion

3. 3.

   proscribed as biologically inaccurate

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

4. 4.

   botany

   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.

5. 5.

   ecology

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

6. 6.

   countable

   A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

verb

1. 1.

   transitive

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

2. 2.

   transitive

   To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

3. 3.

   Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive

4. 4.

   Place into a river

5. 5.

   transitive

   To place in the ground.

6. 6.

   Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground

   “Let's plant flowers in the garden.”

Inflected forms

Grammatical variations of the same word.

• plantingnounInflected form

  The act of fixing firmly in place.

• plantedadjectiveInflected form

  Set in the soil for growth.

• planternounInflected form

  The owner or manager of a plantation.

Word family

Words built from the same root.

• plantationnounDerived noun

  An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas).

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• plant hoppernounCompound term

  Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants.

• plant hormonenounCompound term

  A plant product that acts like a hormone.

• plant kingdomnounCompound term

  The taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.

• plant lifenounCompound term

  A living organism lacking the power of locomotion.

• plant lousenounCompound term

  Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants.

• plant materialnounCompound term

  Material derived from plants.