plant

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) enPR: plänt, IPA: /plɑːnt/, [pʰl̥ɑːnt]
• (General Australian, US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: plănt, IPA: /plænt/, [pʰl̥ænt]
• (æ-tensing) IPA: [pʰl̥eənt]
• Hyphenation: plant

Noun

plant (plural plants)

1. (botany) 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.
2. (botany) 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 b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
3. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
   • That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. (control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

Verb

plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
2. (transitive) 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!
3. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
   • Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
   • to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
4. To place in the ground.
5. To furnish or supply with plants.
   • to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
6. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
7. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
   • to plant a colony
8. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
   • to plant Christianity among the heathen
9. To set up; to install; to instate.

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɑnt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Noun

plant f (plural planten, diminutive plantje n)

1. plant, any member of the kingdom Plantae
2. (potentially offensive) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɑnt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of planten
2. imperative of planten

Pronunciation

• IPA: (Belgium) /plɑnt/, (Netherlands) /plɛnt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of plannen

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɑ̃/
• Homophones: plan, plans, plants

Noun

plant m (plural plants)

1. seedling
2. young plant or plantation

Verb

plant

1. inflection of planen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Noun

plant

1. plant (organism)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [plɑ̃t]

Noun

plant

1. a plant

Verb

plant

1. Medial form of plante; to plant.

Noun

plant

1. Alternative form of planete (“planet”)

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɑnt/

Verb

plant

1. imperative of planta

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plɑːnt/

Adjective

plant

1. neuter singular of plan

Noun

plant pl

1. children

Adjective

plant

1. absolute indefinite neuter singular of plan.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plant/

Noun

plant m pl (singulative plentyn)

1. children, young people
2. children (of parents), offspring (sometimes of animals), progeny, issue; descendants
3. followers, disciples, servants
4. people regarded as product of a particular place, time, event, circumstances, etc.

Mutation

Noun

plant c (plural planten, diminutive plantsje)

1. plant