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Definitions for Plants

[1] any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
[2] an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.
[3] a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
[4] the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business: a manufacturing plant.
[5] the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation: the heating plant for a home.
[6] the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution: the sprawling plant of the university.
[7] Slang . something intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals.
[8] Slang . a scheme to trap, trick, swindle, or defraud.
[9] a person, placed in an audience, whose rehearsed or prepared reactions, comments, etc., appear spontaneous to the rest of the audience.
[10] a person placed secretly in a group or organization, as by a foreign government, to obtain internal or secret information, stir up discontent, etc.
[11] Theater . a line of dialogue, or a character, action, etc., introducing an idea or theme that will be further developed at a later point in the play: Afterward we remembered the suicide plant in the second act.
[12] to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, young trees, etc.
[13] to furnish or stock (land) with plants: to plant a section with corn.
[14] to establish or implant (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.): to plant a love for learning in growing children.
[15] to introduce (a breed of animals) into a country.
[16] to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc.
[17] to bed (oysters).
[18] to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface: to plant posts along a road.
[19] Theater . to insert or place (an idea, person, or thing) in a play.
[20] to place; put.
[21] to place with great force, firmness, or determination: He planted himself in the doorway as if daring us to try to enter. He planted a big kiss on his son's cheek.
[22] to station; post: to plant a police officer on every corner.
[23] to locate; situate: Branch stores are planted all over.
[24] to establish (a colony, city, etc.); found.
[25] to settle (persons), as in a colony.
[26] to say or place (something) in order to obtain a desired result, especially one that will seem spontaneous: The police planted the story in the newspaper in order to trap the thief.
[27] Carpentry . to nail, glue, or otherwise attach (a molding or the like) to a surface.
[28] to place (a person) secretly in a group to function as a spy or to promote discord.
[29] Slang . to hide or conceal, as stolen goods.
[30] any living organism that typically synthesizes its food from inorganic substances, possesses cellulose cell walls, responds slowly and often permanently to a stimulus, lacks specialized sense organs and nervous system, and has no powers of locomotion
[31] such an organism that is green, terrestrial, and smaller than a shrub or tree; a herb
[32] a cutting, seedling, or similar structure, esp when ready for transplantation
[33] informal a thing positioned secretly for discovery by another, esp in order to incriminate an innocent person
[34] billiards snooker a position in which the cue ball can be made to strike an intermediate which then pockets another ball
[35] (often foll by out) to set (seeds, crops, etc) into (ground) to grow
[36] to place firmly in position
[37] to establish; found
[38] to implant in the mind
[39] slang to deliver (a blow)
[40] informal to position or hide, esp in order to deceive or observe
[41] to place (young fish, oysters, spawn, etc) in (a lake, river, etc) in order to stock the water
[42] the land, buildings, and equipment used in carrying on an industrial, business, or other undertaking or service (as modifier ) plant costs
[43] a factory or workshop
[44] mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc

Words related to Plants

plantflower, shrub, tree, vine, grass, seedling, weed, herb, shop, mill, machinery, raise, farm, cover, scatter, sow, implant, bury, grow, transplant

Words nearby Plants

plantplanometer, planosol, planospore, planovalgus, plansheer, plant, plant agreement, plant bug, plant city, plant food, plant hormone

Origin of Plants

before 900; (noun) Middle English plaunte; in part continuing Old English plante sapling, young plant (< Latin planta ); in part (< Old French plante ) < Latin planta a shoot, sprig, scion (for planting), plant; (v.) Middle English plaunten; in part continuing Old English plantian (< Latin plantāre ); in part (< Old French planter ) < Latin plantāre to plant

Other words from Plants

plant·a·ble , adjective
plant·less , adjective
plant·like , adjective
mis·plant , verb (used with object)
o·ver·plant , verb (used with object)
pre·plant , verb (used with object)
self-plant·ed , adjective
sub·plant , noun
un·der·plant , verb (used with object)
un·plant·a·ble , adjective
un·plant·ed , adjective
well-plant·ed , adjective

Word origin for Plants

C20: special use of plant 1

Synonyms for Plants

flower, grass, herb, seedling, shrub, tree, vine, weed, annual, biennial, bush, creeper, cutting, greenery, perennial, shoot, slip, sprout