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