PLANT


Meaning of PLANT in English

n. 25B6; noun

garden plants : flower, vegetable, herb, shrub, weed; ( plants ) vegetation, greenery, flora, herbage, verdure. See lists here and at flower , fruit , fungus , grass , nut , poison , tree , vegetable .

a CIA plant : SPY, informant, informer, (secret) agent, mole, infiltrator, operative; N. Amer. informal spook.

the plant commenced production : FACTORY, works, foundry, mill, workshop, yard; archaic manufactory.

phyto-, -phyte.

25B6; verb

plant the seeds this autumn : SOW, scatter, seed; bed out, transplant.

he planted his feet on the ground : PLACE, put, set, position, situate, settle; informal plonk.

she planted the idea in his mind : INSTIL, implant, impress, imprint, put, place, introduce, fix, establish, lodge.

letters were planted to embarrass them : HIDE, conceal, secrete.

Types of Plant

algae gymnosperms

angiosperms hornworts

bryophytes horsetails

conifers lichens

cycads liverworts

clubmosses mosses

ferns pteridophytes

fungi vascular plants

Parts of a Plant

bark root cap

flower root hair

fruit stem

guard cell stoma

lateral root tap root

leaf vascular bundle

phloem xylem

root

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