English noun: plant |
1. | plant (artifact) buildings for carrying on industrial labor |
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| Samples | They built a large plant to manufacture automobiles.
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| Synonyms | industrial plant, works |
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| Broader (hypernym) | building complex, complex |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bottling plant, brewery, disposal plant, distillery, factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill, mint, packing plant, packinghouse, recycling plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, smelter, smeltery, still |
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| Domain category members | gas system |
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2. | plant (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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| Synonyms | flora, plant life |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acrogen, aerophyte, air plant, annual, apomict, aquatic, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, biennial, crop, cryptogam, embryo, endemic, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, escape, gametophyte, garden plant, holophyte, houseplant, hygrophyte, microflora, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, myrmecophyte, neophyte, non-flowering plant, ornamental, perennial, phytoplankton, plantlet, poisonous plant, pot plant, rock plant, sporophyte, tracheophyte, vascular plant, wilding |
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| Part holonym | cap, hood, plant part, plant structure |
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| Member meronym | kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae |
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| Domain category | botany, phytology |
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| Domain category members | accrete, acid-loving, alder blight, alkaline-loving, amentaceous, amentiferous, amphitropous, anatropous, apocarpous, blanched, botanical medicine, botany, bruise, caespitose, campylotropous, carnivorous, cespitose, circulation, clustered, coca, cultivate, deaden, deciduous, dicotyledonous, domesticate, endangered, epiphytotic, etiolate, etiolate, etiolated, evergreen, floccose, flora, fugaciousness, fugacity, girdle, gregarious, half-hardy, herbal therapy, hispid, insectivorous, inverted, leggy, micro-organism, microorganism, monocotyledonous, naturalise, naturalize, nitrification, orthotropous, pappose, parasite, perennation, peroxidase, photosynthesis, phytotherapy, propagate, saprophytic, sedgy, squamule, syncarpous, tall-growing, tame, tender, tenderiser, tenderizer, threatened, tufted, ungregarious, vegetation |
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3. | plant (person) an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience |
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| Broader (hypernym) | actor, histrion, player, role player, thespian |
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4. | plant (cognition) something planted secretly for discovery by another |
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| Samples | The police used a plant to trick the thieves. He claimed that the evidence against him was a plant.
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| Broader (hypernym) | contrivance, dodge, stratagem |
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English verb: plant |
1. | plant (contact) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground |
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| Samples | Let's plant flowers in the garden.
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| Examples | They plant rye in the field |
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| Synonyms | set |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | afforest, bed, checkrow, dibble, forest, puddle, replant, root, tree |
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2. | plant (contact) fix or set securely or deeply |
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| Samples | He planted a knee in the back of his opponent. The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum.
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| Synonyms | embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | enter, infix, insert, introduce |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bury, nest, pot, sink |
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3. | plant (creation) set up or lay the groundwork for |
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| Samples | Establish a new department.
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| Synonyms | constitute, establish, found, institute |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | initiate, pioneer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | appoint, constitute, fix, name, nominate |
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4. | plant (possession) place into a river |
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| Samples | Plant fish.
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | stock |
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| Domain category | animal husbandry |
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5. | plant (contact) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive |
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| Samples | Plant a spy in Moscow. Plant bugs in the dissident's apartment.
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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6. | plant (cognition) put firmly in the mind |
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| Samples | Plant a thought in the students' minds.
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| Examples | They won't plant the story |
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| Synonyms | implant |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
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