Plant

Definition: Plant

Plant

Noun

1. Buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles".

2. A living organism lacking the power of locomotion.

3. 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".

4. An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.

Verb

1. Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden".

2. To fix or set securely or deeply: "Kneeling, Cobb planted a sturdy knee in the small of his back,".

3. Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department".

4. Place into a river; "plant fish".

5. Put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "plant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Business

Computing

Economics

Electrical Engineering

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Metallurgy

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Plant

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Insertion

Graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant; dovetail.

Instrument

Gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde; equipment, equipmentage; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia; (belongings).

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Property

Free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.

Workshop

Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.

Crosswords: Plant

Afrikaan (plant), Dutch (plan, plant, vegetation), French (seedling, wort, young plant), German (plans), Swedish (flat, flatly, plant).

When you hit that nuclear weapons plant drop a bomb for me (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

No, I'm a plant. (Clue; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn.)

We might get Marky Mark to plant a celebrity tree (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.)

Homer, the plant called (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

You can't plant me in your penthouse (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John)

Every time that I plant a seed (I SHOT THE SHERIFF; performing artist: Eric Clapton)

A seed to plant so my tree can grow (Wasting Time; performing artist: Kid Rock)

He'll plant your feet back on the ground (Legend Of A Mind; performing artist: Moody Blues)

working in a defense plant (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

The best time to plant an oak tree is 20 years ago, the next best time is right now! (references; author: unknown)

Do for others with no desire of returned favor. We all should plant some trees we'll never sit under. (references; author: unknown)

Kisser Plant (1964)

Porky's Poultry Plant (1936)

Alice's Egg Plant (1925)

If I Should Plant a Tiny Seed of Love (1909)

New York City Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant (1903)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Thermal Power Plant Equipment in China: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Iron and Steel Plant Equipment in India: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Temperature-change Machines, Plant and Laboratory Equipment in Jamaica (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Industrial Plant Bakery Bread in Oceana (reference)

• ZIL Auto Plant: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (reference)

• Impact of Backwash Recycling on Water Treatment Plant Performance (reference)

• Baja California Plant Field Guide (reference)

• Physico-Chemical Characterization of Plant Residues for Industrial and Feed Use: Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Aberdeen, Scotland (Uk from 21 T) (reference)

• Biotic and Abiotic Processes in Eastside Ecosystems: The Effects of Management on Plant and Community Ecology, and on Stand and Landscape Vegetation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• African Plant Protection (reference)

• Alberta Gas Plant Statistics (reference)

• Ca Turner Telephone Plant Index (reference)

• Canadian Journal Of Plant Science (reference)

• Guide For The Control Of Plant Diseases (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Kidz on Location: A Field Trip to the Minivan Assembly Plant (reference)

• Penelope Hobhouse - The Art & Practice of Gardening: New Garden Ideas & Nurseries & Plant Collections Vol. 6 (reference)

• David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants: Plant Politics (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Power Plant (reference)

• Power Plant (+3 Bonus Tracks) [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• PLANT EQUIP ONLY LP PCI-DUAL SER 16550 IRQ SHARE (reference)

• Power Plant 4 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Two young women can be seen behind some plant leaves. They seem to be picking some berries on a sunny day. These women are members of a larger Mormon family who are being studied for their low rate of cancer deaths. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

27 year old white female with cutaneous anthrax on right forearm; patient had worked in a spinning department of a goat hair processing plant for 3 years; lesion as seen on 12th day. Credit: CDC.

Leaves in threes characterize poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans. This plant is common in the eastern United States. Credit: CDC.

Reindeer meat processing plant Domesticated reindeer were raised in this area. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Jensen Launch on line dwarfed by nuclear power plant cooling tower Launch off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The herring plant at Big Port Walter. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A large phragmites plant in the wetlands of Folly Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Herring reduction plant at Big Port Walter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Flowering plant in the Alaskan forest at Little Port Walter. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Commercially harvested sea urchins being offloaded from fishing vessel and for shipping to a processing plant. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government)

Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Peering about in this way, I happened to notice a plant with rounded leaves, and with queer little holes cut in the middle of several of them

If the young thrusting plant withered in drought or drowned in a flood of rain, it was no more to the driver than to the tractor

This never costs anything to speak of, unless you plant more than enough

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Soy contains plant estrogens currently under study. (references)

Bats help pollinate some plants and spread plant seeds. (references)

Fungi, which are primitive plant forms, include yeasts and molds. (references)

Business

The manufacturing plant is in Tarbes (797 persons). (references)

Mercedes has a truck assembly plant in the country. (references)

AIDC is the only major state-run aerospace plant in Taiwan. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

In most cases, the ZANU-PF supporters were farm squatters who ordered the farm workers to leave so that they could plant their own crops on the property. (references)

Economic History

Korea

Immediately following the Korean War, at a time when foreign exchange was exceedingly scarce, Korean plant operators learned to rely on their own resources or on the many small machine shops in order to service machinery. (references)

India

In the agriculture sector, several production units have been established in India to manufacture plant tissue cultures. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Lucia

In February the Prime Minister announced that his administration had undertaken security-related plant and infrastructure improvements for the prison and for the police. (references)

Romania

The victim, a worker at the Mechanical Plant in Cugir, was suspected of stealing construction materials. (references)

Algeria

In rural areas, terrorists continued to plant bombs and mines, which often targeted security force personnel. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

The Indian government in June 2000 finally approved the proposed Sur fertilizer plant, a joint venture between the Omani Government and Indian State investors. (references)

ROMANIA

Plant inventories and arrears have been up in 2001. While the government remains committed to privatizing, albeit with only moderate success to date, most liquidation procedures were halted and productive assets have been re-opened for social cause, regardless of financial cost. (references)

ROMANIA

The recent privatization of Sidex, the largest steel plant, is a positive sign. (references)

Trade

China

The new requirements also call for a certification from Animal and Plant Quarantine Service (APHIS) that conifer softwood packaging has been heat-treated, or a label that the shipment contains non-conifer wood packaging, or non-wood packaging. (references)

Bulgaria

So far OPIC has agreed to provide guarantees for the $200 million project for the modernization and rehabilitation of Maritsa East III thermal power plant with the participation of Entergy and the Bulgarian National Electric Company. (references)

China

The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains an office of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Beijing. (references)

Travel

Bolivia

After a business relationship has been established, local distributors and agents generally expect to receive an offer to visit the foreign company's plant facilities and head offices in order to become better acquainted with the company's personnel and its operating techniques. (references)

Uk

Directors and employees of existing British subsidiaries of U.S. firms have encountered little difficulty in obtaining permission to enter and remain in the UK. Bringing the technical personnel required to install and operate a plant or business generally poses no problem, though it is necessary to establish that British subjects with the necessary qualifications are not available. (references)

Women

China

In addition female employees are more likely to be required to take pay cuts when a plant or company is in financial trouble. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

Many detailed credible reports indicate that in recent years, especially in areas inhabited chiefly by members of the Chin, Karen, Karenni, and Shan ethnic groups, army units have increased their use of forced labor for logistical support purposes, including to build, repair, or maintain army camps and roads, and to plant crops, cut or gather wood, cook, clean, launder, weave baskets, fetch water for army units and -- in the case of young women -- to provide sexual services to soldiers. (references)

France

The law requires at least annual bargaining in the public and private sector on wages, hours, and working conditions at both plant and industry levels but does not require that negotiations result in a signed contract. (references)

Kazakhstan

In March the Sokolov-Sarbay Ore Mining and Enrichment Plant in Kostanai Oblast fired all members of the independent trade union "Zhelyznodorozhnik" (Railroadman). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Plant

Expressions using "plant": a plant ♦ action plant ♦ adult plant ♦ air plant ♦ alliaceous plant ♦ alpine plant ♦ animal and plant quarantine ♦ anise plant ♦ annual plant ♦ aquatic plant ♦ arborescent plant ♦ aromatic plant ♦ artichoke plant ♦ artillery plant ♦ assembly plant ♦ atomic plant ♦ atomic power plant ♦ Australian pitcher plant ♦ autophytic plant ♦ bean plant ♦ bedding plant ♦ beef plant ♦ beefsteak plant ♦ bog plant ♦ bottling plant ♦ Bt plant ♦ bulbous plant ♦ burn plant ♦ butterfly plant ♦ California pitcher plant ♦ campanulaceous plant ♦ capsicum pepper plant ♦ caricature plant ♦ carnivorous plant ♦ caryophyllaceous plant ♦ castor bean plant ♦ castor oil plant ♦ century plant ♦ chard plant ♦ chemical plant ♦ chickpea plant ♦ chicory plant ♦ chimney plant ♦ chinese lantern plant ♦ chinese silk plant ♦ Christ plant ♦ clambering plant ♦ climber plant ♦ climbing plant ♦ Coal plant ♦ coal pulverizing plant ♦ combined power station and seawater desalination plant ♦ common bean plant ♦ common indigo plant ♦ common pitcher plant ♦ common unicorn plant ♦ Compass plant ♦ composite plant ♦ constructional plant ♦ consumer having his own generating plant ♦ contouring with plant cuttings ♦ cooling plant ♦ coriander plant ♦ cormous plant ♦ cotton plant ♦ cowpea plant ♦ creeping plant ♦ cress plant ♦ cruciferous plant ♦ cruel plant ♦ cultivated plant ♦ cyanogenetic plant ♦ cyanogenic plant ♦ dairy products plant ♦ deciduous plant ♦ desert plant ♦ diamond polishing plant ♦ disposal plant ♦ district heating plant ♦ Dove plant ♦ dressing plant ♦ dust extracting plant ♦ dwarf plant ♦ electric plant ♦ electric power plant ♦ electrical plant ♦ epiphytic plant ♦ evergreen plant ♦ existing plant ♦ fibre plant ♦ flamingo plant ♦ flowering plant ♦ fodder plant ♦ Foliage plant ♦ fractionating and rectifying plant ♦ freezing plant ♦ friendship plant ♦ garden pea plant ♦ garden plant ♦ gas plant ♦ Glue plant. Additional references.

Beginning with "plant": plant-abundance, plant-algal, plant-animal, plant-aphid-hoverfly-ichneumonid, plant-available, plant-baked, plant-based, plant-breeders, plant-breeding, plant-buying, plant-by-plant, Plant-cane, plant-care, plant-collecting, plant-data, plant-derived, plant-destroying, plant-eaters, Plant-eating, plant-extracted, plant-feeders, plant-filled, plant-food, plant-grinding, plant-growing, plant-house, plant-houses, plant-hunting, plant-in, plant-insect, plant-level, plant-life, plant-like, plant-man, plant-moth-ichneumonid, plant-nutrients, plant-of-prey, plant-ordering, plant-pot, plant-pots, plant-proof, plant-raising, plant-rich, plant-size, plant-soil, plant-specific, plant-stand, plant-stroking.

Ending with "plant": multi-plant, n-plant, power-plant.

Containing "plant": pitcher-plant family, soil-plant-water.

Afrikaans

plant. (various references)

Albanian

vë (apply, attach, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, impose, inflict, instal, install, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, place, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), uzinë (factory, mill, works), themeloj (constitute, establish, float, found, institute, lay the foundations of, open, repose, set up), rrënjos (engraft, enroot, establish, implant, inculcate, instil, instill, root, root in, strike), ngul (bite into, dig, drive, drive in, fix, jab, nail, pin down, plunge, post, press in, put, sink, spit, stick, thrust, wrap up), ngec (break down, conk out, flounder, fob off, foist, foul, hesitate, hitch, jam, Lodge, pack up, run down, seize, throw, thrust), mbjell (crop, embed, imbed, inseminate, seed, sow, spread), kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe, trap, wile), kompleks ndërtesash, impiant, hedh rasat peshku, fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, enshroud, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, screen, secrete, sink, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up), fabrikë (factory, manufactory, mill), detektiv (bloodhound, detective, Dick, gumshoe, sleuth), bimë (growth, vegetable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plunge, poke, push, sink, stab, stick, stick in, thrust), ‏رسخ (embed, entrench, establish, firm, fix, implant, instill, print, root, stabilize), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), ‏أسس (establish, found, institute, organize, predicate, promote, set, set up, work up), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, start, structure, work up), ‏الغرس أو الزرع, ‏خبأ (cache, hide, purloin, stash, stow), ‏عسكر, ‏عميل (infiltrator), ‏زرع (crop, cultivate, grow, implant, lay, plantation, planting, put in, rear, seed, sow, sowing, vegetate), ‏شتل (implant, transplant, transplantation), ‏تسلل (crept, infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, nose, penetrate, percolate, permeation, skulk, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth), ‏مواد, ‏غرس (implant, ingrain, instill, planting), ‏غرسة (tree), ‏غرسة نبات, ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏نبات (cutting, flora, huckleberry, vegetation), ‏نبتة (seedling, shoot, wort), ‏مباني (arcana, immovables), ‏مصنع (factory, manufactory, mill, work, workshop), ‏معمل (factory, mill, workshop), ‏سدد ضربة (inflict, smite). (various references)

Aymara

ayruña (to plant). (various references)

Basque

landare. (various references)

Blackfoot

sapiipommaa (to plant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лъжлива улика, заселвам (colonize, denizen, immigrate, people, pioneer, populate, settle), завод (factory, mill, shop, works), забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plunge, ram, sink, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in), здания, агрегат (aggregate, machine, unit), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist), апаратура (equipments, facilities, hardware, rig), насаждам (engraft, fix, imbue, implant, inculcate, inform, instill, set, set out), поставям здраво, поставям лъжливи улики, посаждам (plant out, pot, put in, set), помещения, подставено лице (dummy, stooge), инсталации (equipments), агент (agent, broker, factor, feeler, implement, investigator, minister, nark, procurator), фабрика (factory, hacienda, manufactory, mill, shop, works), средства (means, medium, moneys, pocket, purse, resources), установявам (ascertain, determine, establish, find, ground, institute, prescribe, seal, vindicate), укривам (compound, hide, secrete, smuggle away, tuck away), скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, put back, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), садя (inseminate, pot, set), растение, нанасям (deal, deliver, inflict, land, lay), фалшива улика, нагласена работа (frame up), копой (bloodhound, ferreter, sleuth, tracker), втиквам (infix, insert, push in, stick), внедрявам (implant, impregnate, inculcate, instil, introduce, root), основавам (base, bottom, charter, establish, found, ground, institute, launch, organize, promote, set up, start), озеленявам (grass, lay out), съоръжения (equipment, fitments, rig, tackle), развъждам (multiply, propagate, raise, rear). (various references)

Chamorro

na'la'la'. (various references)

Chinese 

植物 (botanical, vegetation). (various references)

Czech

zasadit rostlinu, založit (base, begin, constitute, establish, file, float, found, ground, institute, launch, mislay, set up, start, start up, wedge), vložit (deposit, embed, imbed, insert, inset, intercalate, interject, invest, put in), vštípit (engrave, implant, imprint, inculcate, instill), upevnit (anchor, confine, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, picket, plant in, rivet, secure, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), umístit (emplace, fit in, house, locate, place, position, situate, station), továrna (factory, mill), rostlina (herb, vegetable), rùst (accretion, grow, grow up, growth, increase, spindle, upgrowth, vegetate), opustit (abandon, desert, drop, forsake, leave, quit, relinquish, throw up, to leave), dílna (mint, shop, workroom, workshop), bylina (capsicum, herb). (various references)

Danish

plante (bedding plant or seedling for transplanting, seedling for planting). (various references)

Dutch

plant (plan, vegetation), planten (plantation, planting, planting system), gewas (vegetation). (various references)

Esperanto

priplanti, planto, planti, kreskaĵo. (various references)

Faeroese

planta. (various references)

Farsi 

مستقرکردن (Garrison), ماشین الات کارخانه , ماشین (Apparatus, Engine, Gin, Machine, Mechanism, Mill, Motor), نهال زدن , نهال (Sapling, Scion, Slip), نبات (Candy, Rockcandy, Vegetable), کارخانه (Factory, Firm, Housework, Mill, Studio), کاشتن (Grow, Husband, Implant, Inseminate, Seed), کشت وزرع کردن , گیاه (Herb, Vegetable), رستنی (Herb, Vegetable), دستگاه (Apparatus, Appurtenance, Machine, Machinery, Mechanism, Set, System), درزمین قراردادن . (various references)

Finnish

kasvi, laitos (establishment, institute, institution). (various references)

French

planter (bed plants, plank), plante, végétal, usine (physical plant), installation (physical plant), fabrique. (various references)

Frisian

ploantjse, oanplantsje (plantation), gewaechs. (various references)

German

pflanzen (bed, herbal, planting, plants, to plant, vegetables), Pflanze (vegetable), Anlage (aptitude, arrangement, conception, construction, enclosure, equipment, garden, grounds, installation, investment, layout, location, Park, planting, predisposition, processor, scheme, structure, system, talent, tendency, unit), Werk (act, affair, business, business deal, case, deed, factory, matter, mechanism, product, production, work, works), legen (bring down, fold, lay, lay down, lead, locate, place, placement, put, put back, put down, put in, recline, set, settle, site, siting, situate, to lay, to recline), Gewächs (growth), Fabrik (factory, manufactory, mill), anpflanzen (grow, planting). (various references)

Greek 

φυτό (vegetable, wort), εργοστάσιο (factory, manufactory, mill, works), φυτεύω (to plant). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתול (implant), לזרוע (crop, scatter, seed, sow), לנטוע (establish, implant, insert, set up, shoot), שתיל (seedling, slip), בית חרושת (factory, mill), צמח (sprout), נטיעה (planting, sapling, shoot), נטיע (seedling), נטע (plantation, sapling, seedling). (various references)

Hungarian

növény (bi-annuai, denizen, herb, vegetable), üzem (factory, manufactory, mill, run, smooth working, works, -works). (various references)

Indonesian

tumbuh-tumbuhan (asparagus), tumbuhan, tanaman, tanam, menanam (grow). (various references)

Italian

pianta (map, plan, sole, tree, vegetable), vegetale (herbal, vegetable, vegetal), piantare (abandon, crop, Dibble, drive, get stuck in, leave, leave each other, Lodge, pack up, pitch, place oneself, plant oneself, put, quit, set, stick, walk away from), impianto (establishment, fixture, framework, implant, implantation, installation, machinery, rig, system). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

製作所 (factory, works), 事業所 (enterprise place, office), プランクの定数 (Planck's constant, plankton, plant layout, plant renovation, plantation, planter, springtime), 植物　 (vegetation), 植物 (vegetation), 工場　 (factory, mill, workshop), 工場 (factory, mill, workshop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プラント , しょくぶつ (vegetation), せいさくしょ (factory, works), せいさくじょ (factory, works), こうば (factory, mill, workshop), こうじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, mill, moral principles, progress, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop), じぎょうしょ (enterprise place, office). (various references)

Korean 

식믈 (plants). (various references)

Manx

soiaghey (beset, determine, fix, implant, incursion, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, place, posture, repose, seat, set, set up, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize), settal, saih (impale, impalement, stab, stabbing, thrust, trundle), rassan, lus (herb, leek, vervain), losserey (herb, legume, vegetable), glassyraght (plant life), farrys (apparatus, appliance, economy, fitment, props, rig). (various references)

Maya

pakal (to plant). (various references)

Mohawk

-kyenthos (to plant). (various references)

Occitan

plantar, planta. (various references)

Papiamen

planta, planchi. (various references)

Pig Latin

antplay.(various references)

Portuguese

planta (design, designing, diagram, map, plan, plane, sole, survey, veronica), vegetal (vegetable, vegetal), plantar (bed, corn, crop, dibble, grass, plantar, planting, set in, set out, sow), instalação (accommodation, accumulation, equipment, erection, facility, installation, lodgement, lodging, lodgment, mounting, setting-up, settlement, stock-in-trade), fábrica (construction, factory, manufactory, mill, shop), colocar (bestow, clap, collocate, dispose, lay, lay down, locate, pitch, placatory, place, pose, posit, post, put, put down, set, ship, stick). (various references)

Romanian

plantã (set, vegetal), planta (set), vegetal (vegetable, vegetal), uzinã (factory, industry, machine, manufactory, mill, work), sãdi (Dibble, hole, implant, print, set), maşinãrie (enginery, machinery, mechanism, work), instalaţie (appliance, equipment, installation, outfit, rig, service, setting), fonda (erect, establish, form, found, set out, start), fabricã (factory, industry, manufactory, mill, work, works), cultiva (crop, cultivate, culture, grow, produce, propagate, raise, rear, till), buruianã (good for nothing, Heath, Heather, herb, rogue, vegetable, weed). (various references)

Romansch

plantar (to plant). (various references)

Romany

ispelàv (to plant). (various references)

Russian 

внедрять (embed, engrain, enroot, imbed, implant, impregnate, inculcate, intrude, root), приставить, прочно ставить, пускать для разведения, бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, dump, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, slung, threw, throw, throw over, thrown, toss), агрегат (aggregate, aggregation, outfit, unit), завод (enterprise, factory, mill, works), поза (attitude, pose, position, stance), основывать (establish, found, founded, founding, ground, institute), сыщик (bloodhound, detective, ferret, nark, plain-clothes man, plainclothesman, sleuth, snoop, trap), всаживать, растение (good cropper, grower, heavy cropper, herb, light cropper), сажать (embus, enplane, entrain, entruck, seat, set), урожай (crop, crops, harvest, vintage, yield), усадить, устанавливать завод;растение, насадить. (various references)

Scottish

suidhich (appoint, arrange, let for rent, set), lus (an herb, herb, pnm. Luss, weed), luibh (an herb, herb), cuir (lay : cuir an aghaidh, lay down, oppose, place, put, put down, See <A HREF="mf02.html#car">car</A>, send, sow, transmit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), postrojenje, postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), posaditi (implant), podvala (fraud, gouge, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hoax, hokum, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, swindle), podmetnuti (palm off, underlay), podmetati (impute, put under), zasejati (sow), zasaditi, uglaviti (arrange, drive in, fix, house, set), fabrika (factory, manufactory, mill, works), biljka (rutabaga). (various references)

Shona

mushenjere (bamboo plant), muhovha (banana plant), gavakava (aloe plant), -dyara (to plant). (various references)

Spanish

plantar (get in, plantar, put in), planta (floor, sole, tier), instalación (induction, installation, installment, setting up), fábrica (fabric, factory, manufacture, masonry, mill, structure, works), equipo (accouterment, accouterments, apparatus, appointments, crew, equipage, equipment, gang, gear, kit, lot, outfit, party, set, shift, side, squad, tackle, team, things), cultivar (cultivate, dig, farm, grow, keep in, ranch, till, work). (various references)

Sranan

prani. (various references)

Swahili

mgomba (banana plant, banana-plant). (various references)

Swedish

plantera (set), planta (root), växt (development, growth, herb, tumor, tumour, vegetable), placera (deposit, drape, fix, invest, Lodge, Mount, Park, perch, place, posit, position, put, seat, set, settle, sit, site, situate), fabrik (factory, manufactory, mill, works), ört (herb, wort). (various references)

Tagalog

taním. (various references)

Turkish

bítkín, çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), ekmek (bread, bread and butter, broadcast, crop, inseminate, loaf, set, set out, sow, sprinkle, tame), dolandırıcılık (charlatanry, cheat, confidence game, confidence trick, deceit, deceitfulness, do, double dealing, frame up, fraud, grift, jugglery, knavery, racket, ramp, roguery, skin game, swindle, take in), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), dikme (bay, erecting, erection, fixing, pillar, planting, sewing), fidan (cion, sapling, set), bitki (herb, vegetable, wort), gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), bítkí, bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), adam koymak, ağaçlandırmak (afforest, forest, reforest), ağaç olmak (cool one's heels, kick one's heels), aşılamak (bud, engraft, envenom, fertilize, graft, imbue, impregnate, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inoculate, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, suggest, transfuse, vaccinate), demirbaş (fixture, old timer), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), yeşillendirmek (green, replant), yapıştırmak (affix, agglutinate, apply, bond, cement, conglutinate, fix, fixate, glue, gum, gunk up, paste, post, post up, stick, stick together), yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, hand over, heap, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), tesis (facility, foundation, institution, service area, tablishment, works), fabrika (factory, hacienda, mill, works, workshop), malzemeler (ingredients, materials, necessaries, utensils), yutturmak (con, deceive, diddle, dish out, fob, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, put across, put off, put over, string), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, lay on, Park, place, position, put, put down, rest, set, set down, stick, sting), kök salmak (root, strike, take root), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), ihbarcı (denouncer, denunciator, informant, informer, setter), işletme (exploitation, hoax, keeping, leg pull, management, operating, operation, operational, running, undertaking, working, workings), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), saklamak (blind, Bury, cloak, conceal, disguise, enshrine, harvest, hide, hold back, keep back, keep smth. quiet, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, lay down, obscure, put by, put out of sight, screen, secrete, shelter, stash, stash away, stow away, suffuse, tuck away). (various references)

Turkmen 

oturtmak, ekmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

сіяти (corn, crop, inseminate, seed, sow), установка (adjustment, fixing), установлювати (ascertain, assign, lay, set, state), урожай (bearing, crop, gather, harvest, yield), саджати (bed, chair, put), ріст (growing, growth, shoot, upgrowth), рослина (herb, vegetable), влаштовувати (do, establish, get up), завод (works), поза (above, attitude, beyond, outside, playacting, pose, position, posture, stance). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thế đứng máy móc, thực vật (vegetal). (various references)

Welsh

plannu (dive), planhigyn. (various references)

Yucatec

pak'al (sow). (various references)

u. (various references)

acrabattene, alumni, Aphis, arbusta, aserim, bati, bubulae, Cerosipha, collyridam, collyridas, constituam, constituamus, constituantur, constituas, constituat, constitue, constituebant, constituebat, constituemus, constituendum, constituens, constituent, constituentur, constituerat, constituere, constituerem, constituerent, constitueret, constituerim, constitueris, constituerit, constituerunt, constitueruntque, constitues, constituesque, constituet, constituetur, constitui, constituimus, constituissent, constituisset, constituisti, constituistis, constituit, constituite, constituitque, constituitur, constituo, constituta, constitutae, constituti, constitutis, constitutum, constitutus, constituunt, core, cori, coritae, corium, culicem, defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, defossus, deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, Doralina, Doralis, eser, gramen, iesser, inserentur, inserere, inseres, inseretur, insertas, inserti, insertus, inseruerunt, Medoralis, pacti, pacto, pactum, pactus, pepigeram, pepigerant, pepigerat, pepigi, pepigique, pepigisti, pepigit, pepigitque, planta, sata, sati, satis, sato, satos, scorpii, scorpio, scorpiones, scorpionibus, scorpionis, scorpionum, scorpios, semina, seminabis, seminabitur, seminabo, seminabunt, seminandum, seminans, seminant, seminanti, seminantur, seminare, seminas, seminasti, seminastis, seminat, seminata, seminatae, seminate, seminati, seminatis, seminatum, seminatur, seminatus, seminaveris, seminaverit, seminaverunt, seminavimus, seminavit, semines, semino, ser, seram, seras, serat, seratur, serent, serenti, serere, seres, sereser, seret, seretis, seretisque, seri, seris, serit, serite, seritur, sero, serunt, sevisset, sevisti, stirpe, stirpem, stirpique, stirpis, stirps. (various references)

urvaire, urvara. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "plant": plantable, plantain, plantains, plantar, plantation, plantations, planted, planter, planters, plantigrade, plantigrades, planting, plantings, plantlet, plantlets, plantlike, plantocracies, plantocracy, plants, plantsman, plantsmen. (additional references)

Words ending with "plant": ashplant, displant, eggplant, explant, homotransplant, houseplant, implant, interplant, leadplant, misplant, multiplant, overplant, pieplant, preplant, reimplant, replant, supplant, transplant, waxplant. (additional references)

Words containing "plant": ashplants, displanted, displanting, displants, eggplants, explantation, explantations, explanted, explanting, explants, homotransplantation, homotransplantations, homotransplants, houseplants, implantable, implantation, implantations, implanted, implanter, implanters, implanting, implants, interplanted, interplanting, interplants, leadplants, misplanted, misplanting, misplants, overplanted, overplanting, overplants, pieplants, preimplantation, preplanting, reimplantation, reimplantations, reimplanted, reimplanting, reimplants, replantation, replantations, replanted, replanting, replants, supplantation, supplantations, supplanted, supplanter, supplanters, supplanting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Plant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alant, ellant, lant, Palatna, Pellant, phant, Phantd, piant, pilant, plaft, plana, planh, plann, planta, plante, planty, planxty, plarn, platp, Pleni, pleno, plent, plenth, plind, plint, plinz, plisnt, pllant, plunt, plyant, prant, Pyant, splant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pant, plan, plat.

-2 letters: alp, alt, ant, apt, lap, lat, nap, pal, pan, pat, tan, tap.

-3 letters: al, an, at, la, na, pa, ta.

+1 letter: plaint, planet, plants, platan, platen, pliant.

+2 letters: aplenty, explant, haplont, implant, inaptly, naphtol, nuptial, outplan, pantile, penalty, pintail, plaints, planate, planets, plantar, planted, planter, platane, platans, platens, platina, plating, platoon, polenta, ptyalin, pulsant, replant, saltpan, unaptly, unplait.

+3 letters: alpinist, antelope, antipill, antipole, antislip, anviltop, ashplant, conepatl, displant, eggplant, elephant, endplate, enthalpy, explants, flippant, gantlope, haplonts, implants, interlap, misplant, naphthol, naphthyl, naphtols, nuptials, oppilant, optional, outplans, palatine, palmitin, panatela, panelist, panetela, pantiled, pantiles, pantofle, parental, parlante, patently, paternal, patronal, patronly, patulent, penality, pentacle, pentanol, petaline, petulant, phthalin, pieplant, pintails, placenta, plainest, plaiting, planchet, plangent, plankter, plankton, plantain, planters, planting, plantlet, plastron, platanes, platinas, platings, platinic, platinum, platonic, platoons, platting, pleasant, pleating, pliantly, polentas, ponytail, postanal, prenatal, preplant, ptyalins, punctual, rataplan, replants, saltpans, stapling, supplant, tailspin, talapoin, tapeline, tinplate, trapline, triplane, tympanal, unplaits, unpliant, waxplant.