Plant

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  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)  Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
 * 4)  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.
 * 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)  A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
 * 10) A large piece of machinery, such as used in earthmoving or road construction.

Verb

 * 1)  To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
 * 2)  To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
 * 3)  To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Adjectives for Plant
experimental; sapient; showy; microscopic ; companionless; indigenous; remote; thorny; umbelliferous; greedy; naturalized; obstinate; efficient; marsh; vigorous; leguminous; set; aquatic; insectivorous; luxuriant; aromatic; hardy; celebrated; frost-nipped; reduction; wrinkled; branched; parasitic; intruding; stemless;  yielding;  ill-assorted (pi); infusorial; characteristic; ornamental; enchanting; liliaceous; baccate; happy; esculent; fragrant; nutritious; ignoble; inharmonious; succulent; rank; potted; sun-scorched; dwarf; gaudy; umbrageous; established; trailing; rubbed; redolent; long; water; drooping; wind-fertilized; herbaceous; exotic; native; neglected; curious; conventionalized; ballast; submerged; flowering; unsuccessful; ramshackle; precious.

Verbs for Plant
cultivate—; develop—; hedge—; nurse—; perpetuate—; pollenize—; propagate—; prune—; scatter —s; strangle—; tend—; trim—; uproot—; vitalize—; —bears; — branches; —droops; —emerges; —flourish¬es; —flowers; —goes dormant; —puts forth; —roots in; —shoots up; —sprouts; —thrives.

Adverbs for Plant
triumphantly; solidly; immovably; advantageously; indigenously; vigorously; aquatically; luxuriantly; characteristically; ornamentally; nutritiously; succulently; conventionally.

Thesaurus
bush, cache, cannery, capper, clawed, colonize, come-on man, conceal, confirm, conveniences, cook, cosmopolite, cover, creamery, cutting, dairy, deciduous plant, decoy, deep-dye, defense plant, define, denizen, deposit, dibble, dicot, dicotyledon, disseminate, distillery, dockyard, doctor, drill, duffel, dust, embed, embosom, empeople, engraft, engrave, entomb, entrench, ephemeral, equipage, equipment, establish, etch, evergreen, exotic, facilities, facility, factory, factory belt, factory district, fake, feeder plant, file and forget, fittings, fix, fixtures, flour mill, flower, flowering plant, footed, forest, found, foundry, fungus, furnishings, furniture, gametophyte, gear, ground, gymnosperm, herb, hide, hide away, hoofed, hydrophyte, impact, impedimenta, implant, impress, imprint, industrial park, industrial zone, infix, informant, informer, ingrain, inhabit, inhume, inject, inscribe, inseminate, insinuate, install, installations, inter, introduce, invest, jam, juggle, keep hidden, keep secret, kit, lay away, lay the foundation, load, lock up, lodge, machinery, main plant, manipulate, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, materiel, mill, mint, monocot, monocotyl, munition, munitions, munitions plant, occult, oil refinery, outfit, pack, packing house, paraphernalia, pedal, people, perennial, pitch, place, plantar, plumbing, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, populate, position, pot, pottery, power plant, print, production line, push-button plant, put, put away, put in, put up, refinery, reforest, reset, retimber, retouch, rig, rigging, root, salt, sawmill, scatter, scatter seed, screen, seal up, seat, secret agent, secrete, seed, seed down, seed plant, seedling, seminate, set, set in, set out, set up, settle, settle in, shill, shipyard, shop, shrub, situate, sophisticate, sow, sow broadcast, spermatophyte, sporophyte, spy, stack, stamp, stash, station, stereotype, stock-in-trade, stool pigeon, stoolie, store away, stow away, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tackle, taloned, tamper with, tannery, thallophyte, things, toed, tomb, transplant, tree, triennial, ungulate, utensils, vascular plant, vegetable, vest, vine, wedge, weed, winery, works, yard, yards, accouterments, adulterate, agent provocateur, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, aquatic plant, armament, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, assign, atomic energy plant, base, bed, biennial, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bosom, bottle up, brewery, brickyard, broadcast, build, build in, bury,

Etymology 1
From planta:, later influenced by French plante:.

Etymology 2
plantare:, later influenced by Old French planter:.

Derived terms

 * houseplant
 * planter
 * plantlet
 * plant-pot


 * pot-plant
 * power plant
 * plant room

Derived terms

 * faceplant, handplant
 * plant out

Related terms

 * plantation

Noun

 * Afrikaans: Plant, Plante
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نبات
 * Aragonese: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: গছ-গছনি
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azeri:, bitkilər
 * Baluchi:
 * Banjarese:
 * Basque: landare, landareak
 * Belarusian: расьліна, расьліны
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri:
 * Breton: plant (collective noun)
 * Bulgarian:, растения
 * Burmese: အပင်
 * Capiznon:
 * Catalan: planta
 * Cebuano: tanum
 * Chamorro: tinanom
 * Chichewa: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ގަސް
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: ཤིང་།
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: taim, taimed
 * Faroese: plantur, planta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: მცენარე
 * German:
 * Greek:, φυτά
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: ka'a
 * Gujarati: છોડ
 * Gusii: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi:
 * Hmong Daw:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: planto
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: tumbuh-tumbuhan
 * Interlingua: planta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: tanduran
 * Karakalpak: ,
 * Kashubian: roscëna, roscënë
 * Kazakh: өсімдік, وسىمدىك, өсімдіктер, وسىمدىكتەر
 * Khmer: ដើម
 * Kinyarwanda: ikimera, ibimera
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: دره‌خت, ڕووه‌ک
 * Kyrgyz: өсүмдүк, ۅسۉمدۉك, өсүмдүктөр, ۅسۉمدۉكتۅر
 * Lak:
 * Lao: ຕົ້ນ​ພືດ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: augs


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: spati
 * Lozi: ,
 * Luganda: ,
 * Luxembourgish: Planz
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: تومبوهن, tumbuhan, tumbuh-tumbuhan
 * Maori: otaota
 * Mara Chin: ,
 * Marathi: रोपे
 * Minangkabau: ,
 * Moksha:
 * Mongolian: ургамал
 * Nepali: बिरूवा
 * Ngaju:
 * Norwegian: plante
 * Oriya: ଉଦ୍ଭିଦ
 * Pashto: نبات, نباتات
 * Persian:, گياه
 * Polish:, , rośliny
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਪੌਦਾ, ਪੌਦੇ
 * Romani: ,
 * Romanian:, plante
 * Romansch: ,
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Rusyn: ,
 * Sakha: ,
 * Sardinian: pranta
 * Serbian: raslina, biljka
 * Shona: mbesa
 * Sinhalese: පැළය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ,
 * Upper Sorbian:, rostliny
 * Sotho: semela, dimela
 * South Azerbaijani: ,
 * Southern Hindko: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: pepelakan, tutuwuhan
 * Surigaonon:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, växt
 * Tagalog: halaman
 * Tajik: ниҳол, ниҳолҳо, نحال, نحال‌ها
 * Tatar: үсемлек, үсемлекләр
 * Telugu: మొక్క (mokka)
 * Thai: (pêut)
 * Tibetan:
 * Tigrinya: ተኽሊ, ኣትክልቲ
 * Tonga:
 * Tumbuka: ,
 * Tupinambá: ka'a
 * Turkish:, bitkiler
 * Turkmen: ösümlik, ösümlikler
 * Tuvan: ,
 * Uab Meto:, ,
 * Udmurt:
 * Ukrainian: рослина (roslyna), рослина, рослини
 * Urdu: نبات, نباتات
 * Uyghur: ئۆسۈملۈك, ئۆسۈملۈكلەر
 * Uzbek: o‘simlik, ўсимлик
 * Venetian: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: planhigyn,
 * Western Panjabi: ,
 * Xhosa: isityalo, izityalo
 * Yoruba: ohun ọ̀gbìn
 * Zarma: ,
 * Zulu: isitshalo, izitshalo


 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: మొక్క (mokka)
 * Thai: (pêut)
 * Uab Meto: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Swahili:


 * Telugu: మొక్క (mokka)
 * Thai: (pêut)


 * Armenian:
 * Breton: labouradeg, greanti
 * Cebuano: planta
 * Chinese: 工廠, 工厂 (gōngchǎng)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: virksomhed, anlæg, fabrik
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: pabrik
 * Interlingua: installation; fabrica; machineria
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 工場 (こうじょう, kōjō)
 * Korean: 공장 (工場, gongjang)
 * Lithuanian: gamykla, sometimes fabrikas
 * Lojban: fanri, molki
 * Luxembourgish: Fabréck, Fabrik
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: továreň,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Thai: (rohng ngaan)
 * Turkish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: подметка, подвала


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Romanian:


 * German:


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Macedonian: постројка

Verb

 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: տնկել
 * Breton: plantañ
 * Cebuano: tanum
 * Chinese: 種, 种 (zhòng); 種稙, 种植(zhòngzhí)
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Guaraní: ñoty
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: plantacar
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: plantar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 植える (うえる, ueru)


 * Korean: 심다 (simda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شینکردن, چانکردن, ڕواندن
 * Lojban: sombo
 * Macedonian: сади, засадува,  посадува,  насадува
 * Polish: sadzić, zasadzić
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сажать (sažát’), посадить (posadít’)
 * Sicilian:, ghiantari
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: (naaTu)
 * Thai: (bplòok)
 * Tupinambá: tym
 * Turkish:


 * Cebuano: tanum
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Interlingua: plantar


 * Italian:
 * Korean: 이식하다 (移植-, isikhada)
 * Macedonian:, подметнува,  подвалува
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: забива


 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * 1) plant (organism)
 * 2) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage)

Derived terms

 * plantensoort

Etymology
plante, from planta

Noun

 * 1) plant (organism)

Etymology
From plante:.

Noun

 * 1) children

Etymology
From planta:.

Descendants

 * Old Irish:
 * Irish:
 * Manx:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Welsh:

Noun

 * 1) children

Etymology
From plant: <  planta:. Or from Proto-Celtic *kwlanta- "descendents".