plant
Forms
- Plural
- plants
- present (v1)
- plant
- past (v2)
- planted
- past participle (v3)
- planted
- present participle
- planting
- 3rd person singular
- plants
Definitions
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.Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- The plant is likely to be closed next week.
3.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.
- The plant is likely to be closed next week.
4.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.
1.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!
2.To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
- First Anelka curled a shot wide from just outside the box, then Lampard planted a header over the bar from Bosingwa's cross.
3.To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
4.To furnish or supply with plants.
- His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before.
- With your mouse, you plant a garden by selecting plants from a database of 450 of the most common flowers, shrubs, and trees.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #821
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).