| Plant |
n. |
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. |
| Plant |
n. |
A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. |
| Plant |
n. |
The sole of the foot. |
| Plant |
n. |
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. |
| Plant |
n. |
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. |
| Plant |
n. |
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
| Plant |
n. |
A young oyster suitable for transplanting. |
| Plant |
n. |
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. |
| Plant |
n. |
To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. |
| Plant |
n. |
To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. |
| Plant |
n. |
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. |
| Plant |
n. |
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. |
| Plant |
n. |
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. |
| Plant |
n. |
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. |
| Plant |
n. |
To set up; to install; to instate. |
| Plant |
v. i. |
To perform the act of planting. |
| Plant-cane |
n. |
A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. |
| Plant-eating |
a. |
Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. |
| Plantable |
a. |
Capable of being planted; fit to be planted. |
| Plantage |
n. |
A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. |
| Plantain |
n. |
A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. |
| Plantain |
n. |
The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked. |
| Plantain |
n. |
Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world. |
| Plantal |
a. |
Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. |
| Plantar |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries. |
| Plantation |
n. |
The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. |
| Plantation |
n. |
The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. |
| Plantation |
n. |
An original settlement in a new country; a colony. |
| Planted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Plant |
| Planted |
a. |
Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding. |
| Planter |
n. |
One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. |
| Planter |
n. |
One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. |
| Planter |
n. |
A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. |
| Plantership |
n. |
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. |
| Planticle |
n. |
A young plant, or plant in embryo. |
| Plantigrada |
n. pl. |
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. |
| Plantigrade |
a. |
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. |
| Plantigrade |
a. |
Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. |
| Plantigrade |
n. |
A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears. |
| Planting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Plant |
| Planting |
n. |
The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. |
| Planting |
n. |
That which is planted; a plantation. |
| Planting |
n. |
The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. |
| Plantless |
a. |
Without plants; barren of vegetation. |
| Plantlet |
n. |
A little plant. |
| Plantocracy |
n. |
Government by planters; planters, collectively. |
| Plantule |
n. |
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. |
