Etymology : Middle English, from Old English plantian, from Late Latin plantare to plant, fix in place, from Latin, to plant, from planta plant
Pronunciation : 'plant
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. small vegetable growth; factory; equipment; agent who has been assigned to secretly infiltrate a location (Slang). sow, place seeds or vegetation into soil; secretly insert a spy or surveillance device; establish; set, place, put. plant\plant\ , n. [as. plante, l. planta.].
2. 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.note: plants are divided by their structure and methods of reproduction into two series, ph?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. as to their mode of nutrition, plants 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. the movements of climbing plants, of some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of zo?spores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary motion.
3. a bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "a plant of stubborn oak.".
4. the sole of the foot. [r.] "knotty legs and plants of clay." jonson.
5. (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.
6. a plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [slang] it was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on fikey.
7. (zo?l.) (a) an oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. (b) a young oyster suitable for transplanting. [local, u.s.]plant bug (zo?l.), any one of numerous hemipterous insects which injure the foliage of plants, as lygus lineolaris, which damages wheat and trees.plant cutter (zo?l.), a south american passerine bird of the genus phytotoma, family phytotomid?. it has a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injury.plant louse (zo?l.), any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families aphid? and psyllid?; an aphid.plant \plant\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. planted; p. pr. & vb. n. planting.] [as. plantian, l. plantare. see:
plant, n.].
8. to put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
9. to set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. xvi.
10. 3. to furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
11. to engender; to generate; to set the germ of. it engenders choler, planteth anger.
12. to furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. planting of countries like planting of woods.
13. to introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant christianity among the heathen.
14. 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 so.
15. 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.
16. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
17. The sole of the foot.
18. 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.
19. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
20. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
21. A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
22. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
23. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
24. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
25. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
26. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
27. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
28. 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.
29. To set up; to install; to instate.
30. To perform the act of planting. a living organism lacking the power of locomotion buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" 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" an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds" 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" put or set into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden" place into a river; "plant fish".
31. 1. A plant is a living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots. Water each plant as often as required. exotic plants. see also:
bedding plant, pot plant, rubber plant.
32. When you plant a seed, plant, or young tree, you put it into the ground so that it will grow there. He says he plans to plant fruit trees and vegetables. + planting plant·ing Extensive flooding in the country has delayed planting and many crops are still under water.
33. When someone plants land with a particular type of plant or crop, they put plants, seeds, or young trees into the land to grow them there. They plan to plant the area with grass and trees Recently much of their energy has gone into planting a large vegetable garden. newly planted fields.
34. A plant is a factory or a place where power is produced. Ford's British car assembly plants The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
35. Plant is large machinery that is used in industrial processes. investment in plant and equipment. = machinery.
36. If you plant something somewhere, you put it there firmly. She planted her feet wide and bent her knees slightly. with his enormous feet planted heavily apart.
37. To plant something such as a bomb means to hide it somewhere so that it explodes or works there. So far no one has admitted planting the bomb.
38. If something such as a weapon or drugs is planted on someone, it is put among their possessions or in their house so that they will be wrongly accused of a crime. He claimed that the drugs had been planted to incriminate him.
39. If an organization plants someone somewhere, they send that person there so that they can get information or watch someone secretly. Journalists informed police who planted an undercover detective to trap Smith. Any organism in the kingdom Plantae, consisting of multicellular, eukaryotic life forms (see:
eukaryote) with six fundamental characteristics: photosynthesis as the almost exclusive mode of nutrition, essentially unlimited growth at meristems, cells that contain cellulose in their walls and are therefore somewhat rigid, the absence of organs of movement, the absence of sensory and nervous systems, and life histories that show alternation of generations. No definition of the kingdom completely excludes all nonplant organisms or even includes all plants. Many plants, for example, are not green and thus do not produce their own food by photosynthesis, being instead parasitic on other living plants (see:
parasitism). Others obtain their food from dead organic matter. Many animals possess plantlike characteristics, such as a lack of mobility (e.g., sponges) or the presence of a plantlike growth form (e.g., some corals and bryozoans), but in general such animals lack other plant characteristics. Some past classification systems (see:
taxonomy) placed difficult groups such as protozoans, bacteria, algae, slime molds, and fungi (see:
fungus) in the plant kingdom, but structural and functional differences between these organisms and plants have convinced most scientists to classify them elsewhere. oyster plant bedding plant carnivorous plant castor oil plant century plant flowering plant indigo plant pitcher plant plant virus rubber plant India rubber plant seed plant sensitive plant spider plant vascular plant.
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