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1.nounAn organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. 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."
2.nounAn organism of the kingdom Plantae; 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.
3.nounNow specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4.nounAny creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5.nounA factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6.nounAn 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!"
7.nounAnyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8.nounA person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9.nounA play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10.nounMachinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11.nounA young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12.nounThe sole of the foot.
13.nounA plan; a swindle; a trick.
14.nounAn oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15.nounA young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16.verbTo place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17.verbTo place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit."That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!"
18.verbTo place or set something firmly or with conviction."Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug."
19.verbTo place in the ground.
20.verbTo furnish or supply with plants."to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest"
21.verbTo engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22.verbTo furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish."to plant a colony"
23.verbTo introduce and establish the principles or seeds of."to plant Christianity among the heathen"
24.verbTo set up; to install; to instate.