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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The nasturtiums and other plants, which his father had delighted to train before his window, had all disappeared from the upper part of the house.
Descending into the grotto, he lifted the stone, filled his pockets with gems, put the box together as well and securely as he could, sprinkled fresh sand over the spot from which it had been taken, and then carefully trod down the earth to give it everywhere a uniform appearance; then, quitting the grotto, he replaced the stone, heaping on it broken masses of rocks and rough fragments of crumbling granite, filling the interstices with earth, into which he deftly inserted rapidly growing plants, such as the wild myrtle and flowering thorn, then carefully watering these new plantations, he scrupulously effaced every trace of footsteps, leaving the approach to the cavern as savage-looking and untrodden as he had found it.
That is where the rare plants and the butterflies are, if you have the wit to reach them.”
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.
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