Plant \Plant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.]
1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to
plant maize.
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2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a
vegetable with roots.
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Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.
--Deut. xvi.
21.
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3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a
garden, an orchard, or a forest.
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4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
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It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak.
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5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to
settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
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Planting of countries like planting of woods.
--Bacon.
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6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as,
to plant Christianity among the heathen.
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7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to
plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any
place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's
fist in another's face.
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8. To set up; to install; to instate.
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We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plant \Plant\, n. [AS. plante, L. planta.]
1. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without
feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a
root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only
of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or
even a single cellule.
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Note: Plants are divided by their structure and methods of
reproduction into two series, ph[ae]nogamous or
flowering plants, which have true flowers and seeds,
and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no
flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores. In
both series are minute and simple forms and others of
great size and complexity.
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may be considered as self-supporting and dependent.
Self-supporting plants always contain chlorophyll, and
subsist on air and moisture and the matter dissolved in
moisture, and as a general rule they excrete oxygen,
and use the carbonic acid to combine with water and
form the material for their tissues. Dependent plants
comprise all fungi and many flowering plants of a
parasitic or saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have
no chlorophyll, and subsist mainly or wholly on matter
already organized, thus utilizing carbon compounds
already existing, and not excreting oxygen. But there
are plants which are partly dependent and partly
self-supporting.
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some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or
pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of
zoospores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary
motion.
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2. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
"A plant of stubborn oak." --Dryden.
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3. The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of
clay." --B. Jonson.
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4. (Com.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in
carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also,
sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents
investment of capital in the means of carrying on a
business, but not including material worked upon or
finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or
a railroad.
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5. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang]
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It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey.
--Dickens.
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6. (Zool.)
(a) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from
one of natural growth.
(b) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. [Local,
U.S.]
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Plant bug (Zool.), any one of numerous hemipterous insects
which injure the foliage of plants, as Lygus lineolaris,
which damages wheat and trees.
Plant cutter (Zool.), a South American passerine bird of
the genus Phytotoma, family Phytotomid[ae]. It has a
serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and
buds of plants, often doing much injury.
Plant louse (Zool.), any small hemipterous insect which
infests plants, especially those of the families
Aphid[ae] and Psyllid[ae]; an aphid.
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Plant \Plant\, v. i.
To perform the act of planting.
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I have planted; Apollos watered. --1 Cor. iii.
6.
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plant
n 1: buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a
large plant to manufacture automobiles" [syn: works, industrial
plant]
2: a living organism lacking the power of locomotion [syn: flora,
plant life]
3: something planted secretly for discovery by another; "the
police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed
that the evidence against him was a plant"
4: an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed
but seems spontaneous to the audience
v 1: put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground; "Let's
plant flowers in the garden" [syn: set]
2: fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the
back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in
the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed]
3: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
department" [syn: establish, found, constitute, institute]
4: place into a river; "plant fish"
5: place something or someone in a certain position in order to
secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow";
"plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
6: put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students'
minds" [syn: implant]
WordNet (r) 2.0
258 Moby Thesaurus words for "plant":
accouterments, adulterate, agent provocateur, amphibian,
angiosperm, annual, apparatus, appliances, appointments,
appurtenances, aquatic plant, armament, armory, arsenal,
assembly line, assembly plant, assign, atomic energy plant, base,
bed, biennial, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bosom,
bottle up, brewery, brickyard, broadcast, build, build in, bury,
bush, cache, cannery, capper, clawed, colonize, come-on man,
conceal, confirm, conveniences, cook, cosmopolite, cover, creamery,
cutting, dairy, deciduous plant, decoy, deep-dye, defense plant,
define, denizen, deposit, dibble, dicot, dicotyledon, disseminate,
distillery, dockyard, doctor, drill, duffel, dust, embed, embosom,
empeople, engraft, engrave, entomb, entrench, ephemeral, equipage,
equipment, establish, etch, evergreen, exotic, facilities,
facility, factory, factory belt, factory district, fake,
feeder plant, file and forget, fittings, fix, fixtures, flour mill,
flower, flowering plant, footed, forest, found, foundry, fungus,
furnishings, furniture, gametophyte, gear, ground, gymnosperm,
herb, hide, hide away, hoofed, hydrophyte, impact, impedimenta,
implant, impress, imprint, industrial park, industrial zone, infix,
informant, informer, ingrain, inhabit, inhume, inject, inscribe,
inseminate, insinuate, install, installations, inter, introduce,
invest, jam, juggle, keep hidden, keep secret, kit, lay away,
lay the foundation, load, lock up, lodge, machinery, main plant,
manipulate, manufactory, manufacturing plant,
manufacturing quarter, materiel, mill, mint, monocot, monocotyl,
munition, munitions, munitions plant, occult, oil refinery, outfit,
pack, packing house, paraphernalia, pedal, people, perennial,
pitch, place, plantar, plumbing, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon,
populate, position, pot, pottery, power plant, print,
production line, push-button plant, put, put away, put in, put up,
refinery, reforest, reset, retimber, retouch, rig, rigging, root,
salt, sawmill, scatter, scatter seed, screen, seal up, seat,
secret agent, secrete, seed, seed down, seed plant, seedling,
seminate, set, set in, set out, set up, settle, settle in, shill,
shipyard, shop, shrub, situate, sophisticate, sow, sow broadcast,
spermatophyte, sporophyte, spy, stack, stamp, stash, station,
stereotype, stock-in-trade, stool pigeon, stoolie, store away,
stow away, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tackle, taloned,
tamper with, tannery, thallophyte, things, toed, tomb, transplant,
tree, triennial, ungulate, utensils, vascular plant, vegetable,
vest, vine, wedge, weed, winery, works, yard, yards
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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