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plant
- pronunciation:
- plaent
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a living thing that has leaves, makes its own food, and has roots that usually grow in the earth.
I have many plants growing in my garden.
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| definition 2: |
a building that has machinery and equipment for making things; factory.
Nina works at the automobile plant.
- similar words:
- factory
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| related words: |
facility, mill |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
planted, planting, plants |
| definition: |
to put something into the ground to make it grow.
We planted a vegetable garden behind our house. |
| related words: |
bury, install, landscape, pitch, put |
| derivation: |
plantlike (adj.) |
Word Builder: plant +
- plantings:
things that are planted.
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animals that only eat plants |
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herbivore, vegetarian |
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produced by plants |
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bloom, blossom, bud, flower, fruit, seed |
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see/see also plant |
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flower, fruit, vegetable |
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some activities with plants |
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browse, cultivate, eat, feed, garden, graze, hay, implant, landscape, mow, plant, root, sink, sow, transplant |
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some behaviors of plants |
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bloom, creep, grow, pollinate, wilt |
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some categories of plants |
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annual, biennial, deciduous, perennial |
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some descriptions of plants |
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fresh, green, poisonous |
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some examples of plants |
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bramble, bush, cactus, cereal, conifer, evergreen, fern, flower, grass, herb, houseplant, insectivore, ivy, legume, lily, moss, palm, seaweed, shrub, tree, weed |
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some growth stages of plants |
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embryo, seed |
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some kinds of plants |
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cross, dwarf, hybrid, native |
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some parts of plants |
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blade, boll, branch, bulb, cell, chlorophyll, foliage, fruit, grain, leaf, nectar, offshoot, petal, pore, root, runner, sap, sepal, sprout, stem |
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some people associated with plants |
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farmer, florist, gardener |
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some places for plants |
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aquarium, bed, border, crop, forest, garden, greenhouse, habitat, heath, hothouse, jungle, moor, nursery, oasis, orchard, terrarium, vase |
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some things plants cause |
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allergy, hay fever, rash |
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some things that affect plants |
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air, blight, fertilizer, insects, irrigation, manure, nutrients, pollination, soil, sunlight, water, weeds |
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some uses of plants |
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clothing, food, fuel, shelter |
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study of plants |
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botany |
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