PLANT


Meaning of PLANT in English

I.

noun

1 living thing

ADJECTIVE

▪ delicate

▪ wild

▪ native

▪ rare

▪ garden , house , indoor , potted

▪ exotic , tropical

▪ medicinal

▪ food

The butterfly's sole food ~ is wild lupine.

▪ crop

▪ poisonous

▪ perennial

▪ aquatic , desert , marsh , water

▪ bedding , climbing , flowering , ornamental

▪ woody

▪ herbaceous , leguminous ( both technical )

▪ strawberry , tomato , etc.

VERB + PLANT

▪ cultivate , grow

▪ water

▪ protect

PLANT + VERB

▪ develop , grow

▪ flourish

▪ die

▪ absorb sth

Plants absorb carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.

▪ produce sth

PLANT + NOUN

▪ roots

▪ growth

▪ life

Much of the local ~ life has been destroyed by the chemicals.

▪ species , variety

▪ population

▪ material , matter , tissue

▪ cell

▪ pot

▪ food

▪ science

2 factory

ADJECTIVE

▪ industrial

▪ assembly , manufacturing , production

▪ auto ( AmE ), car ( esp. BrE )

▪ nuclear , power

▪ coal-fired

▪ processing , reprocessing , sewage , treatment , water , water-treatment

a waste reprocessing ~

▪ chemical , petrochemical

VERB + PLANT

▪ build

▪ manage , run

PLANT + VERB

▪ produce sth

PLANT + NOUN

▪ manager

II.

verb

1 put plants/seeds in the ground to grow

ADVERB

▪ carefully

▪ deliberately

weeds that had not been deliberately ~ed

PREPOSITION

▪ in

Carefully ~ your cutting in the soil.

▪ with

The garden was ~ed with roses and other shrubs.

PHRASES

▪ densely ~ed

The Bordeaux area is densely ~ed with vine.

▪ newly ~ed , recently ~ed

recently ~ed maples

▪ widely ~ed

Zinfandel is California's most widely ~ed red grape.

2 put sth firmly in a place/position

ADVERB

▪ firmly , squarely

She ~ed a kiss squarely on his cheek.

PREPOSITION

▪ on

He was determined to keep both feet firmly ~ed on dry land.

Plant is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bean , ↑ bomb , ↑ bulb , ↑ bush , ↑ corn , ↑ cotton , ↑ crop , ↑ explosive , ↑ field , ↑ fist , ↑ flag , ↑ foot , ↑ forest , ↑ garden , ↑ hedge , ↑ herb , ↑ kick , ↑ kiss , ↑ mine , ↑ mole , ↑ pea , ↑ root , ↑ seed , ↑ shrub , ↑ tree , ↑ variety , ↑ vegetables , ↑ wheat

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