plant
plant is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
- noun. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- noun. The sole of the foot.
- noun. The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
- noun. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
- noun. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- noun. A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- noun. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
- noun. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
- noun. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
- noun. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- noun. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
- noun. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
- noun. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
- noun. To set up; to install; to instate.
- intransitive verb. To perform the act of planting.
- noun. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- noun. buildings for carrying on industrial labor
"they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
- noun. 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"
- noun. an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- verb. put firmly in the mind
"Plant a thought in the students' minds"
- verb. 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"
- verb. fix or set securely or deeply
"He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"
"The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
- verb. put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
"Let's plant flowers in the garden"
- verb. set up or lay the groundwork for
"establish a new department"
- verb. place into a river
"plant fish"
Synonyms
flora, works, implant, embed, engraft, imbed, set, constitute, establish, found, institute
Common word forms
plants, plantal, planted, planter, planting, plantable, plantless
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