plant

Plural: plants

Noun

buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
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 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.
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.
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.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
A stash or cache of hidden goods.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
A plan; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
The combination of process and actuator.
A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.

Verb

Verb Forms: planted, planting, plants

To place seeds or living organisms in the ground for growth.
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
fix or set securely or deeply
- "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"
- "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
set up or lay the groundwork for
place into a river
- "plant fish"
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 firmly in the mind
- "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
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 place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place in the ground.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.

Examples

He decided to PLANT his letters strategically, hoping they would grow into a high-scoring word later.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
That gun’s not mine! It’s a plant! I’ve never seen it before!
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
to plant a colony
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
to plant Christianity among the heathen

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).
The factory and machinery senses comes from the Latin sense of "any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species," which refers to something that produces.

Synonyms

constitute, embed, engraft, establish, flora, found, imbed, implant, industrial plant, institute, plant life, set, works, plant, seed

Scrabble Score: 7

plant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
plant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

plant: valid Words With Friends Word