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plant
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- pronunciation:
- plaent
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A plant is a living thing that has leaves and roots that usually grow in the ground. Plants use light from the sun to make their own food. Grass, trees, vegetables, and flowers are plants.
Anne keeps many kinds of plants in her house. She has many types of flowers and even a few small trees.
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| definition 2: |
A plant is a kind of factory. It is a building or group of buildings that have machines and equipment for making things.
A lot of people in our town work at the automobile plant.
- similar words:
- factory, work
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| related words: |
mill, organism |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
plants, planting, planted |
| definition 1: |
When you plant something, you put it into the ground to grow.
My dad and I planted seeds for tomatoes in our backyard.
- similar words:
- seed
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| definition 2: |
When an idea is planted into someone's mind, the idea is put into this person's mind by another person or a thing.
When the school principal realized that students were not eating fresh foods, it planted an idea in his mind. Now, six months later, the students have their own garden and are growing fresh vegetables. |
| definition 3: |
When you plant something, you put it firmly into the ground or onto the ground. When you plant something, it will not move.
My dad planted the fence posts into the ground. |
| related words: |
bury, install, landscape, pitch, put |
| 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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cultivate, eat, feed, garden, graze, landscape, mow, plant, root |
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some behaviors of plants |
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bloom, creep, grow, pollinate |
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some categories of plants |
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annual |
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some descriptions of plants |
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fresh, green |
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some examples of plants |
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bush, cactus, cereal, evergreen, fern, flower, grass, legume, moss, palm, shrub, tree, weed |
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some growth stages of plants |
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seed |
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some kinds of plants |
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cross, dwarf, native |
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some parts of plants |
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blade, branch, bulb, cell, chlorophyll, foliage, fruit, grain, leaf, nectar, petal, root, sap, 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, crop, forest, garden, greenhouse, habitat, jungle, nursery, oasis, orchard, vase |
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some things plants cause |
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allergy, rash |
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some things that affect plants |
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air, 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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