plant

CEFRA1

/plɑːnt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A living thing that grows in soil and usually has leaves.

  2. 02

    noun

    A factory or large industrial building.

Examples

  • Plant these seeds before summer sets in.

  • The foreign executives visited the manufacturing plant.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • [pʰl̥æːnt] ~ [pʰl̥ɛːnt] ~ [pʰl̥eːnt]
  • [pʰl̥ant] ~ [pʰl̥änt]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. 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 organ...

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

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To put a seed or plant into the ground.

More examples

In context

  • The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.

  • My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.

  • The company has production plants in three countries.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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). The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”). The factory and machinery senses comes from the Latin sense of "any vegeta...