Meaning

19 senses
  1. An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

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

    Pflanze, Gewächs, Gewächs

    расте́ниеrasténije, расте́ниеrasténije

    росли́наroslýna

  2. An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.

    Pflanze

    расте́ниеrasténije

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

    расте́ниеrasténije

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

  5. (countable)A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

    The company has production plants in three countries.

    My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.

  6. (uncountable)Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.

    Near-synonym: capital equipment

    industrial plant

    Koloss

  7. (Australia)The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.

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

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

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

    Maulwurf

    кротkrot

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

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

    Kombination

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

More definitions
  • (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
  • buildings for carrying on industrial labor
  • something planted secretly for discovery by another
  • an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Examples

1756 sentences
  1. All plants need water and light.

    Всім рослинам потрібна вода і світло. — deniko

    ruВсем растениям нужны вода и свет. — marafon

    deAlle Pflanzen brauchen Wasser und Licht. — Wolf

  2. When did you plant these trees?

    Коли ти посадила ці дерева? — deniko

    ruКогда ты посадил эти деревья? — Selena777

    deWann hast du diese Bäume gepflanzt? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Does Tom talk to his plants?

    Том розмовляє зі своїми рослинами? — deniko

  4. We need plants in order to live.

    Щоб жити, нам потрібні рослини. — deniko

  5. Did you remember to water the plants?

    Ти не забув полити квіти? — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
organism capable of photosynthesis:
Русский
By meaning 2
organism capable of photosynthesis:
person behaving as a member of the public during a covert operation:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
organism capable of photosynthesis:
large piece of machinery:
person behaving as a member of the public during a covert operation:
snooker shot:

Origin

From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly plan

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).

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Forms

plural: plants
Singularplant
Pluralplants

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion:floraplant life
  • buildings for carrying on industrial labor:worksindustrial plant

Word family

207 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • planted these trees
  • one who planted
  • who planted these
  • water the plants
  • planted these flowers
  • planted the roses
  • planted roses in
  • planted a tree
  • one that planted
  • planted that tree
  • planting corn
  • the garden planting

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
plant — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto