Results for plant

Definitions of plant:

part of speech: verb transitive

To put into the ground for growth; as, to plant seed; to provide or prepare with seeds, roots, etc.; as, to plant a garden; fix in the mind; establish.

part of speech: verb transitive

To put into the ground for growth: to furnish with plants: to set in the mind: to establish.

part of speech: noun

Any vegetable organism; a sprout or sapling; the tools, machinery, fixtures, and sometimes buildings, of any trade or business; as, a manufacturing plant; the equipment of an institution, as a college of hospital.

part of speech: noun

An organised living body destitute of sensation; a small vegetable; a herb or shrub; the tools necessary to any trade; the stock, fixtures, & c., necessary to carry on any large concern, as railway plant.

part of speech: verb

To put or set in the ground for growth; to set that it may increase, as the germ of anything; to set firmly; to fix; to settle; to fill or adorn with plants.

part of speech: noun

A sprout: any vegetable production: a child: the tools or materials of any trade or business.

Usage examples for plant:

• Where is this plant to be found? "The Voyage of the Aurora", Harry Collingwood

• Their food- plant remains erect, green and well provided with leaves until the end of autumn. "The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles", Jean Henri Fabre

• Then I plant the tree again where it stood before, and thus this war will be ended for ever. "The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada", Francis Parkman