noun
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.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
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
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
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.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
The company has production plants in three countries.
My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.
verb
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before.
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!
Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing journalist revealed all about the love nest.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
To place in the ground.
God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.
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An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.