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1. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
   - flora, plant life
    
2. An industrial site, e.g. where products are manufactured or processed
   "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles";
   - works, industrial plant
    
3. An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
    
4. Something planted secretly for discovery by another
   "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"
    
5. Industrial machinery or large vehicles

1. Put (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
   "Let's plant flowers in the garden";
   - set
    
2. Fix or set securely or deeply
   "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent";
   - implant, engraft, embed, imbed
    
3. Set up or lay the groundwork for
   - establish, found, constitute, institute
    
4. (animal husbandry) place into a river
   "plant fish"
    
5. Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
   "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
    
6. Put firmly in the mind
   "Plant a thought in the students' minds";
   - implant

Derived forms: planting, plants, planted

Type of: actor, being, building complex, communicate, complex, contrivance, dodge [informal], enter, histrion, infix, initiate, insert, introduce, lay, organism, pass, pass along, pass on, pioneer, place, player, pose, position, put, put across, role player, set, stock, stratagem, thespian

Part of: kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae

Encyclopedia: Plant, Joseph