Plant
A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To perform the act of planting.
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Plant Quotations
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Confucius
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Bob Marley
Plant Translations
plant in Afrikaans is plant
plant in Danish is plante
plant in Dutch is gewas, plant
plant in Finnish is kasvi
plant in German is Anlage {f}, Pflanze, pflanzen
plant in Italian is allegato, vegetale, pianta
plant in Latin is sato
plant in Portuguese is planta
plant in Spanish is planta, cultivar, plantar, fabrica
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