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    plant
    [plant]
    noun
    plant (noun)
    plants (plural noun)
    1. a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
      Similar:
      herb
      flower
      vegetable
      shrub
      weed
      greenery
      flora
      • a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place:
        "the company has 30 plants in Mexico"
        Similar:
        factory
        works
        foundry
        mill
        workshop
        shop
        yard
        • a person placed in a group as a spy or informer:
          "we thought he was a CIA plant spreading disinformation"
          Similar:
          spy
          informant
          informer
          secret agent
          agent
          mole
          infiltrator
          verb
          plant (verb)
          plants (third person present)
          planted (past tense)
          planted (past participle)
          planting (present participle)
          1. place (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow:
            "we planted a lot of fruit trees"
            Similar:
            sow
            scatter
            seed
            bed out
            set out
            transplant
            put in the ground
            • place or fix in a specified position:
              "she planted a kiss on his cheek"
              Similar:
              put
              place
              set
              position
              station
              situate
              settle
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              plant
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              Origin
              Old English plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ (later influenced by French plante) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’.
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