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The bean plant bent toward the sunny window.
What does Plant mean?
A plant can be a living thing that grows, a factory, or something placed secretly; to plant means to put or establish something in a place.
Dictionary definition
A living organism such as a tree, grass, or flower that usually makes food using light; a factory or its equipment; or something secretly placed. As a verb, to put a seed or plant in the ground, establish something, or place it firmly or secretly.
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Plant in a sentence
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The company opened a plant that builds electric buses.
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We planted seeds in the garden, while the detective discovered evidence someone had planted.
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Which choice shows the industrial noun sense of plant?
Plant can mean a factory and its equipment.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses plant to mean place secretly?
Here plant means to put something secretly so it will later be found.
Practice 3
To place seeds in soil so they can grow is to ____ them.
Plant is the common verb for putting seeds or young plants in growing position.
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MeaningPlant means A plant can be a living thing that grows, a factory, or something placed secretly; to plant means to put or establish something in a place.
ExampleExample: The bean plant bent toward the sunny window.
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Synonyms
Words like Plant
vegetationPlants considered together in an area, not one individual plant.
factoryA close synonym for the industrial noun sense.
sowA close verb for scattering or placing seeds, but not for every plant action.
place firmlyA paraphrase for the verb sense of setting something securely.
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Does Plant have an opposite?
Plant has no precise general antonym. The learner guidance identifies useful contextual contrasts without presenting them as lexical opposites.
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Word family
Plant word family
Base word
plant
noun
plants
The plural noun or present-tense verb.
verb
planted
Put, established, or placed in position.
noun
planting
The act or arrangement of putting plants or seeds in place.
adjective
plantlike
Resembling a plant.
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Hint for students
Check whether plant names a living organism, an industrial facility, or the action of putting or establishing something.
Common mix-up
A flower is a part or type of plant, not a synonym for every plant. The factory sense and secret-placement sense are common and need context.
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Write four captions using plant once for a living organism, once for a factory, once for gardening, and once for secret placement. Underline each context clue.
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Sort four examples—fern, factory, planting a seed, planting a clue—by noun or verb and meaning. Ask which context words prove each choice.
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