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plant

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Synonyms: pliant, slant, pant, plaint, plan, plane, plait, plat, plank, plans, platt

Antonyms: pliant, slant, pant, plaint, plan, plane, plait, plat, plank, plans, platt

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Noun

  1. {{lb|en|botany}} An [[organism]] that is not an [[animal]], especially an [[organism]] [[capable]] of [[photosynthesis]], and typically a [[small]] or [[herbaceous]] [[organism]] of this [[kind]], rather than a [[tree]].
  2. {{senseid|en|Q756}} {{lb|en|botany}} An [[organism]] of the kingdom ''{{taxfmt|Plantae|kingdom}}'', and now specifically, a living organism of the ''[[Embryophyta]]'' (land plants) or of the ''[[Chlorophyta]]'' ([[green alga]]e), a [[eukaryote]] that includes double-membraned [[chloroplasts]] in its cells containing [[chlorophyll a]] and [[chlorophyll b|b]], or any organism closely related to such an organism.
  3. {{lb|en|ecology}} Now specifically, a multicellular [[eukaryote]] that includes [[chloroplast]]s in its [[cell]]s, which have a cell wall.
  4. {{lb|en|obsolete}} A young tree, vine, shrub, or herb; a [[sapling]].
  5. {{lb|en|proscribed|_|as biologically inaccurate}} Any creature that [[grow]]s on [[soil]] or similar [[surface]]s, including plants and [[fungi]].
  6. {{senseid|en|factory}} {{lb|en|countable}} A [[factory]] or other industrial or institutional [[building]] or [[facility]].
  7. {{lb|en|uncountable}} [[machinery|Machinery]] and other [[supplies]] and [[equipment]], such as the kind used in [[heavy industry]], [[light industry]], [[earthmoving]]{{,}} or [[construction]].
  8. {{lb|en|AU}} The [[equipment]] and work animals of a [[drover]] or other [[rural]] worker travelling through the countryside.
  9. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  10. {{lb|en|slang|obsolete}} A [[stash]] or [[cache]] of [[hidden]] [[goods]].
  11. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the [[public]] during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  12. A person, placed amongst an [[audience]], whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To place (a seed or plant) in [[soil]] or other [[substrate]] in order that it may live and grow.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To furnish or supply with plants.
  3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place (an [[object]], or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
  5. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place in the ground.
  6. {{lb|en|transitive}} To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  7. {{lb|en|transitive}} To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
  8. {{lb|en|transitive}} To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
  9. {{lb|en|transitive}} To set up; to install; to instate.

Proper noun

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