1.  plant(n = noun.artifact) industrial plant, works - buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
is a kind of building complex, complex
has particulars: bottling plant, brewery, distillery, still, factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill, mint, packing plant, packinghouse, recycling plant, refinery, saltworks, disposal plant, sewage disposal plant, smelter, smeltery

2.  plant(n = noun.tops) flora, plant life - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; Array
is a kind of being, organism
has parts: cap, hood, plant part, plant structure
is a member of kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae
has particulars: phytoplankton, microflora, crop, endemic, holophyte, non-flowering plant, plantlet, wilding, ornamental, pot plant, acrogen, apomict, aquatic, cryptogam, annual, biennial, perennial, escape, hygrophyte, neophyte, embryo, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, sporophyte, gametophyte, houseplant, garden plant, tracheophyte, vascular plant, poisonous plant, aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, rock plant, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, myrmecophyte
Derived forms verb plant₁, adjective plantal₁, noun plantlet₁

3.  plant(n = noun.person) Array - an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience; Array
is a kind of actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian

4.  plant(n = noun.cognition) Array - 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"
is a kind of contrivance, dodge, stratagem
Derived form verb plant₅

1.  plant(v = verb.contact) set - put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
Derived forms noun plant₂, noun planter₃, noun planting₃
Sample sentences: They plant rye in the field

2.  plant(v = verb.contact) embed, engraft, imbed, implant - fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
is one way to enter, infix, insert, introduce
Derived form noun planting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP

3.  plant(v = verb.creation) constitute, establish, found, institute - set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
is one way to initiate, pioneer
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  plant(v = verb.possession) Array - place into a river; "plant fish"
is one way to stock
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

5.  plant(v = verb.contact) Array - 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"
is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
Derived form noun plant₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

6.  plant(v = verb.cognition) implant - put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
is one way to communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across
Sample sentences: They won't plant the story

1.  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. [1913 Webster]

2.  A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

3.  The sole of the foot. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

4.  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. [1913 Webster]

5.  A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [1913 Webster]
"It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey." [1913 Webster]

6.  An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. [1913 Webster]

1.  To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. [1913 Webster]

2.  To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. [1913 Webster]
"Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees." [1913 Webster]

3.  To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. [1913 Webster]

4.  To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. [1913 Webster]
"It engenders choler, planteth anger." [1913 Webster]

5.  To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. [1913 Webster]
"Planting of countries like planting of woods." [1913 Webster]

6.  To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. [1913 Webster]

7.  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. [1913 Webster]

8.  To set up; to install; to instate. [1913 Webster]
"We will plant some other in the throne." [1913 Webster]

   To perform the act of planting. [1913 Webster]
"I have planted; Apollos watered." [1913 Webster]

plant, n. & v.
--n.
1 a any living organism of the kingdom Plantae, usu. containing chlorophyll enabling it to live wholly on inorganic substances and lacking specialized sense organs and the power of voluntary movement. b a small organism of this kind, as distinguished from a shrub or tree.
2 a machinery, fixtures, etc., used in industrial processes. b a factory.
3 colloq. something, esp. incriminating or compromising, positioned or concealed so as to be discovered later.
--v.tr.
1 place (a seed, bulb, or growing thing) in the ground so that it may take root and flourish.
2 (often foll. by in, on, etc.) put or fix in position.
3 deposit (young fish, spawn, oysters, etc.) in a river or lake.
4 station (a person etc.), esp. as a spy or source of information.
5 refl. take up a position (planted myself by the door).
6 cause (an idea etc.) to be established esp. in another person's mind.
7 deliver (a blow, kiss, etc.) with a deliberate aim.
8 sl. position or conceal (something incriminating or compromising) for later discovery.
9 a settle or people (a colony etc.). b found or establish (a city, community, etc.).
10 bury.

Idiom:
plant-louse a small insect that infests plants, esp. an aphis. plant out transfer (a plant) from a pot or frame to the open ground; set out (seedlings) at intervals.

Derivative:
plantable adj. plantlet n. plantlike adj.

Etymology:
OE plante & F plante f. L planta sprout, slip, cutting

N  instrument, machinery, mechanism, engineering, instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe, gin, mill, air engine, caloric engine, heat engine, gear, tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances, plant, materiel, harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments, barde, equipment, equipmentage, appointments, furniture, upholstery, chattels, paraphernalia, mechanical powers, lever, leverage, mechanical advantage, crow, crowbar, handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing, oar, paddle, pulley, wheel and axle, wheelwork, clockwork, wheels within wheels, pinion, crank, winch, cam, pedal, capstan, wheel, inclined plane, wedge, screw, spring, mainspring, can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel, handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key, turnscrew, screwdriver, knocker, hammer, edge tool, borer, vice, teeth, nail, rope, peg, support, spoon, arms, oar, cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph, instrumental, mechanical, machinal, brachial.

N  workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.

N  property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum, ownership, proprietorship, lordship, seignority, empire, interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding, tenure, vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest, use, trust, benefit, legal estate, equitable estate, seizin, seisin, absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold, fee tail, fee simple, estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail, estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general, limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate, estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie, remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility, dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony, legacy, Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds, assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances, wealth, money, what one is worth, what one will cut up for, estate and effects, landed property, landed real estate property, realty, land, lands, tenements, hereditaments, corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments, acres, ground, acquest, messuage, toft, territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence, manor, honor, domain, demesne, farm, plantation, hacienda, allodium, fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency, arado, merestead, ranch, free lease-holds, copy lease-holds, folkland, chattels real, fixtures, plant, heirloom, easement, right of common, right of user, personal property, personal estate, personal effects, personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, stock in trade, things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia, equipage, parcels, appurtenances, impedimenta, luggage, baggage, bag and baggage, pelf, cargo, lading, rent roll, income, maul and wedges, patent, copyright, chose in action, credit, debt, one's own, landed, predial, manorial, allodial, free lease-hold, copy lease-hold, feudal, feodal, to one's credit, to one's account, to the good, to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assign.

VB  place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.

VB  insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert itself, lodge itself, plunge in medias res.

N  vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

VB  cultivate, till the soil, farm, garden, sow, plant, reap, mow, cut, manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top, backset.

N  deception, falseness, untruth, imposition, imposture, fraud, deceit, guile, fraudulence, fraudulency, covin, knavery, misrepresentation, bluff, straw-bail, straw bid, spoof, delusion, gullery, juggling, jugglery, slight of hand, legerdemain, prestigiation, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring, conjuration, hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship, trickery, coggery, chicanery, supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion, treachery, practical joke, trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite, card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck, artful dodge, swindle, tricks upon travelers, stratagem, confidence trick, fake, hoax, theft, ballot-box stuffing, barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game, shell game, thimblerig, skin game, snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin, springe, springle, noose, hoot, bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens, cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime, dionaea, Venus's flytrap, ambush, trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom, spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery, mine, flytrap, green goods, panel house, Cornish hug, wolf in sheep's clothing, disguise, disguisement, false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes, pattes de velours, mockery, copy, counterfeit, sham, make- believe, forgery, fraud, lie, a delusion a mockery and a snare, hollow mockery, whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher, tinsel, paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels, scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint, veneer, jerry building, man of straw, illusion, ignis fatuus, mirage, deceived, deceiving, cunning, prestigious, prestigiatory, deceptive, deceptious, deceitful, covinous, delusive, delusory, illusive, illusory, elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus, untrue, mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard, surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated, unsound, rotten at the core, colorable, disguised, meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated, catchpenny, Brummagem, artificial, synthetic, ersatz, simulated, under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of, over the left, keep the word of promise to the ear and break it t, fronti nulla fides, ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, a quicksand of deceit, decipimur specie recti, falsi crimen, fraus est celare fraudem, lupus in fabula, so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue.

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