plant
/plænt/ noun A2- An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and 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.
- 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 organism closely related to such an organism.
- Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. · The company has production plants in three countries.· My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.
- Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction. · Near-synonym: capital equipment· industrial plant
- An 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!
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
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Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet.
“Well, then, with the first money I touch, I mean you to have a small house, with a garden in which to plant clematis, nasturtiums, and honeysuckle.
That is where the rare plants and the butterflies are, if you have the wit to reach them.”
Around this opening, which had, possibly, for ages permitted a free entrance to the brilliant moonbeams that now illumined the vast pile, grew a quantity of creeping plants, whose delicate green branches stood out in bold relief against the clear azure of the firmament, while large masses of thick, strong fibrous shoots forced their way through the chasm, and hung floating to and fro, like so many waving strings.
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