Plant

Quick meaning: Plant is a noun meaning (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Meaning

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

More Meanings

1. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
2. (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
3. (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
4. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
5. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
6. (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
7. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.

Example Sentences

industrial plant

Near-synonym: capital equipment

My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.

The company has production plants in three countries.

Word Forms

• plants
• planting
• planted

Synonyms for plant

Depending on context, synonyms include seed, constitute, set, establish, institute, embed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flora, engraft, imbed, embed, found, works.

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