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plant
Part of speech: NounAny vegetable organism; a sprout or sapling; the tools, machinery, fixtures, and sometimes buildings, of any trade or business; as, a manufacturing plant; the equipment of an institution, as a college of hospital.
Part of speech: VerbTo put into the ground for growth; as, to plant seed; to provide or prepare with seeds, roots, etc.; as, to plant a garden; fix in the mind; establish.
Usage examples "plant":- " If you had one," said Mary, " what would you plant?" - "The Secret Garden", Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- Could plant a store anyway, when the track comes. - "The Plow-Woman", Eleanor Gates.
- He withdrew his arm to plant his torch in the stones already removed. - "As It Was in the Beginning", Philip Verrill Mighels.