plant
1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor (Freq. 63)
- they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
• Syn:
works, industrial plant
• Members of this Topic:
gas system
• Hypernyms:
building complex, complex
• Hyponyms:
bottling plant, brewery, distillery, still, factory,
mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory, mint, packinghouse, packing plant,
packing plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, disposal plant,
smelter, smeltery
2. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion (Freq. 37)
• Syn:
flora, plant life
• Derivationally related forms:
floral (for: flora), plantal, plantlet
• Topics:
botany, phytology
• Members of this Topic:
acid-loving, alkaline-loving, apocarpous, syncarpous, sedgy,
floccose, hispid, pappose, carnivorous, saprophytic, insectivorous,
etiolate, etiolated, blanched, tender, dicotyledonous, monocotyledonous,
evergreen, deciduous, campylotropous, orthotropous, anatropous, inverted,
amphitropous, epiphytotic, amentiferous, amentaceous, half-hardy, gregarious,
clustered, ungregarious, caespitose, cespitose, tufted, leggy,
tall-growing, endangered, threatened, phytotherapy, herbal therapy, botanical medicine,
microorganism, micro-organism, parasite, coca, fugacity, fugaciousness,
circulation, vegetation, flora, botany, squamule, nitrification,
perennation, photosynthesis, alder blight, peroxidase, tenderizer, tenderiser,
propagate, bruise, domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise,
tame, accrete, girdle, deaden
• Hypernyms:
organism, being
• Hyponyms:
phytoplankton, microflora, crop, endemic, holophyte,
non-flowering plant, plantlet, wilding, ornamental, pot plant, acrogen,
apomict, aquatic, cryptogam, annual, biennial, perennial,
escape, hygrophyte, neophyte, embryo, monocarp, monocarpic plant,
monocarpous plant, sporophyte, gametophyte, houseplant, garden plant, vascular plant,
tracheophyte, poisonous plant, air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant,
rock plant, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, myrmecophyte
• Member Holonyms:
Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom
• Part Meronyms:
hood, cap, plant part, plant structure
3. an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
• Hypernyms:
actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
4. 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
• Hypernyms:
contrivance, stratagem, dodge
1. put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground (Freq. 8)
- Let's plant flowers in the garden
• Syn:
set
• Derivationally related forms:
set (for: set), planter, planting
• Hypernyms:
put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Hyponyms:
root, puddle, checkrow, bed, dibble,
afforest, forest, replant, tree
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They plant rye in the field
2. fix or set securely or deeply (Freq. 2)
- He planted a knee in the back of his opponent
- The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum
• Syn:
implant, engraft, embed, imbed
• Derivationally related forms:
planting, implantation (for: implant), implant (for: implant)
• Hypernyms:
insert, infix, enter, introduce
• Hyponyms:
pot, nest, bury, sink
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. set up or lay the groundwork for (Freq. 1)
- establish a new department
• Syn:
establish, found, constitute, institute
• Derivationally related forms:
institution (for: institute), constitution (for: constitute), foundation (for: found), founder (for: found), founding (for: found), establishment (for: establish)
• Hypernyms:
initiate, pioneer
• Hyponyms:
fix, appoint, name, nominate, constitute
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. place into a river
- plant fish
• Topics:
animal husbandry
• Hypernyms:
stock
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. 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
• Hypernyms:
put, set, place, pose, position, lay
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
6. put firmly in the mind
- Plant a thought in the students' minds
• Syn:
implant
• Hypernyms:
communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
- They won't plant the story
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