plant

The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.

In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 217:

(botany) 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.

(botany) 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.

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

(proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

The US group does have another vaccine plant in Ireland – in Carlow – but it is understood the Dundalk site is the only live virus vaccine facility in MSD’s Irish network.

2025 6 Jan, Dominic Coyle, “Drug giant MSD buys Wuxi’s Irish vaccines plant in €500m deal”, in The Irish Times, archived from the original on 2025-02-03:

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

That gun’s not mine! It’s a plant! I’ve never seen it before!

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

(slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

The company's product range includes tools, construction plant, diggers, dumpers and rollers.

2007 January 26, “HSS buys Laois tool hire business”, in RTÉ News, archived from the original on 2025-02-03:

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of ſtubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a ſturdy ſtroke: / Or with hard Stones, demoliſh from afar / His haughty Creſt, the feat of all the War.

1694, “The Third Book of Virgil's Georgicks”, in John Dryden, transl., The Annual Miscellany, for the Year 1694, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1708, page 185:

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for eaſe, or love delay.

1611, Ben Jonson, “Oberon, the Faery Prince”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume V, London: D. Midwinter et al., published 1756, page 384:

It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you.

1850 March 30, Charles Dickens, “A Detective Police Party”, in Household Words, volume 1, page 413:

(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

(control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

(UK, slang, obsolete) A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.

→ Punjabi: ਪਲਾਂਟ (palāṇṭ)

plante

a small or herbaceous organism, rather than a tree

plante

ecology: multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells

soluttautuja

person behaving as a member of the public during a covert operation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-plant.wav

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. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin).
The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).
The factory and machinery senses comes from the Latin sense of "any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species," which refers to something that produces.


plant

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before.

1848, Jacob Abbott, “Story I. Labour Lost.—Elky.”, in Rollo at Work: Or, The Way for a Boy to Learn to be Industrious, London: James S. Hodson, page 5:

With your mouse, you plant a garden by selecting plants from a database of 450 of the most common flowers, shrubs, and trees.

1991 November 26, Don Trivette, “How Does Your Garden Grow? With Silver Bells And Mouse Button Clicks”, in PC Mag, volume 10, number 20, Ziff Davis, Inc., →ISSN, page 604:

(transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.

That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing journalist revealed all about the love nest.

1999, Terry Prone, The Skywriter, page 182:

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground

Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.

First Anelka curled a shot wide from just outside the box, then Lampard planted a header over the bar from Bosingwa's cross.

2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.

1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects […] To which are added Hymns […] , 4th edition, page 252:

Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.

It engenders choler, planteth anger.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

to plant a colony

planting of countries like planting of woods

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

(transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

to plant Christianity among the heathen

(transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

We will plant some other in the throne.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

(transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.

en-verb

plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)

plants (present singular third-person)
planting (participle present)
planted (participle past)
planted (past)

𖼯𖽙

to place in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow

quraşdırmaq

to place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit

подложи́ть

a bomb, a stolen object as false evidence

закрепвам

to place or set something firmly or with conviction

istuttaa

to engender; to generate; to set the germ of

заселвам

to furnish with a fixed and organized population

juurruttaa

to introduce and establish the principles or seeds of

thùm

to place and object into the ground in upright postion