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plant1/plahnt/ nounany of various living but immobile multicellular organisms such as trees and flowers that typically have cellulose cell walls, root systems for absorbing water and inorganic substances, and leaves that manufacture nutrients a tree, shrub, vine, etc that is, or can be, planted, esp a soft-stemmed or fleshy-stemmed nonwoody plant smaller than a shrub or tree a building or collection of buildings where large-scale manufacturing or processing takes place machinery and equipment necessary for a large-scale manufacturing or processing operation to function a person who secretly infiltrates an organization in order to spy, gain information, or cause trouble something incriminating surreptitiously concealed in a person's belongings, home, etc in snooker, a shot in which the cue ball strikes one of two balls that are touching or lying close together, so that the other is potted
plant2verb transto put (a seed, plant, bulb, etc) in a place with the right conditions to encourage germination or growth One guy plants bananas; another plants cocoa; I'm a writer, I plant lines — Derek Walcott to give (a place) over to the germination or growth of a specified plant or crop planted the field with potatoes to put or settle (something, somebody, or oneself) firmly in a specified place planted herself in an armchair to send (somebody) to infiltrate an organization to spy, gain information, or cause trouble to place or hide (an explosive device) to establish (an idea, etc) in somebody's mind to put (something incriminating) surreptitiously in somebody's belongings, home, etc to establish or found (a new colony, community, etc) to put (young fish, spawn, oysters, etc) in water, esp in a lake or river to improve the fishing or in a fish farm for cultivation to stock (a stretch of water) with young fish, spawn, oysters, etc informal to land (a punch or blow) [Old English plantian and early French planter, both from Latin plantare to plant, fix in place] |