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The correct spelling is plant.
How to pronounce plant
/plænt/
nounIPA: /plænt/
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The correct spelling is plant. An 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. For example: "The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border."
Usage Examples
“The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.”
“That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!”
“That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An 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.
- 2.An 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.Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- 4.Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- 5.A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
verb
- 1.To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- 2.To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- 3.To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- 4.To place in the ground.
- 5.To furnish or supply with plants.
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