plant
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.”
An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Verb 4 meanings
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To furnish or supply with plants.
“to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest”
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
“That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!”
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
“to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground”
Etymology
From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante.
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PLANT at a glance
PLANT has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (P 3 + L 1 + A 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,334 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with plant
All rhymes- WANT7
- IMPORTANT13
- SIGNIFICANT17
- MEANT7
- ASSISTANT9
- RESTAURANT10
- GRANT6
- GIANT6
- RELEVANT11
- PREGNANT11
- BRILLIANT11
- CONSTANT10
One letter away
- PLANS7
- PLANE7
- PLANK11
- SLANT5
- PLAIT7
- PLAST7
- ALANT5
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