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plant
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- pronunciation:
- plaent
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
one of a large group of living things that use sunlight to make their own food. Most plants have leaves, stems, roots and either flowers or cones. Plants use a green pigment called chlorophyll to absorb energy from sunlight. Grasses, trees, vines, vegetables, cactuses, ferns and mosses are plants.
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| definition 2: |
a building or group of buildings that have machinery and equipment for making things; factory.
The fifth grade class went on a tour of the automobile plant.
- similar words:
- factory, work
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| related words: |
facility, mill, organism |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
plants, planting, planted |
| definition 1: |
to put into the ground to grow.
We planted a vegetable garden behind our house.
- similar words:
- seed
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| definition 2: |
to put into the mind.
Don't plant any crazy ideas in his head.- similar words:
- root
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| definition 3: |
to place firmly or with force.
He planted his feet and would not move. |
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bury, install, landscape, pitch, put, sink |
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| 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, 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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