1. Set in the soil for growth
   "The newly planted saplings needed regular watering"
    
2. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held
   "a deeply planted need";
   - deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, well-established

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
   "They planted the seeds of revolution";
   - establish, found, constitute, institute
    
4. Put firmly in the mind
   "Plant a thought in the students' minds";
   - implant
    
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. (animal husbandry) place into a river
   "plant fish"

See also: constituted, established, naturalised [Brit], naturalized, potbound, quickset, rootbound, seeded, self-seeded, self-sowed, self-sown, soil-building, sown

Type of: communicate, enter, infix, initiate, insert, introduce, lay, pass, pass along, pass on, pioneer, place, pose, position, put, put across, set, stock

Antonym: unplanted

Encyclopedia: Planted