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- [plant, plahnt]
- /plænt, plɑnt/
- /plɑːnt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [plant, plahnt]
- /plænt, plɑnt/
Definitions of plant word
- noun plant any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis. 1
- noun plant an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub. 1
- noun plant a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting. 1
- noun plant the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business: a manufacturing plant. 1
- noun plant the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation: the heating plant for a home. 1
- noun plant the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution: the sprawling plant of the university. 1
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Origin of plant
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun) Middle English plaunte; in part continuing Old English plante sapling, young plant (< Latin planta); in part (< Old French plante) < Latin planta a shoot, sprig, scion (for planting), plant; (v.) Middle English plaunten; in part continuing Old English plantian (< Latin plantāre); in part (< Old French planter) < Latin plantāre to plant
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Parts of speech for Plant
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
plant popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
plant usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for plant
noun plant
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- accomplice — Someone's accomplice is a person who helps them to commit a crime.
- armory — armor or armorial bearings
- arsenal — An arsenal is a large collection of weapons and military equipment held by a country, group, or person.
- atelier — An atelier is an artist's studio or workshop.
verb plant
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- anchor — An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
- base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- berthed — in a berth
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
adj plant
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- fallow — pale-yellow; light-brown; dun.
- framer — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
adjective plant
- organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- wolfish — resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
- wooden — consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden ship.
Antonyms for plant
verb plant
- accessed — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- accessing — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- avulse — to remove or take away by force
- banish — If someone or something is banished from a place or area of activity, they are sent away from it and prevented from entering it.
- binning — a box or enclosed place for storing grain, coal, or the like.
noun plant
- animal — An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion, or rabbit, rather than a bird, fish, insect, or human being.
- being — Being is the present participle of be1.
- biped — A biped is a creature with two legs.
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- concreteness — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
adj plant
- bipedal — having two feet
- creatural — of, relating to, or of the nature of a creature.
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- ecce homo — Art. a painting, statue, or other representation of Christ crowned with thorns.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
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