Definition of plant - Rhyme Finder

Definitions

Noun

buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"

Noun

(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Noun

an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Noun

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"

Verb

put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let''s plant flowers in the garden"

Verb

fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

Verb

set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"

Verb

place into a river; "plant fish"

Verb

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"

Verb

put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students'' minds"

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Synonyms

constitute embed engraft establish flora found imbed implant industrial plant institute plant life set works

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More General Terms

actor being building complex communicate complex contrivance dodge enter histrion infix initiate insert introduce lay organism pass pass along pass on pioneer place player pose position put put across role player set stock stratagem thespian

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More Specific Terms

acrogen aerophyte afforest air plant annual apomict appoint aquatic autophyte autophytic plant autotroph autotrophic organism bed biennial bottling plant brewery bury checkrow constitute crop cryptogam dibble disposal plant distillery embryo endemic epiphyte epiphytic plant escape factory fix forest gametophyte garden plant holophyte houseplant hygrophyte manufactory manufacturing plant microflora mill mint monocarp monocarpic plant monocarpous plant myrmecophyte name neophyte nest nominate non-flowering plant ornamental packing plant packinghouse perennial phytoplankton plantlet poisonous plant pot pot plant puddle recycling plant refinery replant rock plant root saltworks sewage disposal plant sink smelter smeltery sporophyte still tracheophyte tree vascular plant wilding

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