Usually means: Organisms that photosynthesize and grow.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plant, Plant, plant: Wordnik
  7. plant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Plant, plant: Wiktionary
  9. plant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plant: Dictionary.com
  13. plant (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plant (control theory), Plant (disambiguation), Plant (restaurant), Plant, The Plant (film), The Plant (newspaper), The Plant (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plant: Rhymezone
  19. plant, plant (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. plant: Free Dictionary
  22. plant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. plant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. plant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. The Plant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plant-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. plant: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. plant: Glossary of research economics
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. plant: Legal dictionary
  7. Plant: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. plant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLANT: Acronym Finder
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  3. plant: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. plant, plant, plant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Plant: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Plant: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Plant: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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  1. Plant: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
noun:  (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
noun:  (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
noun:  (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
noun:  A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
noun:  An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
noun:  (slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
noun:  Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
noun:  A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
noun:  (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
noun:  (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
noun:  (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
noun:  (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
noun:  (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
noun:  An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
noun:  (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
noun:  (control theory) The combination of process and actuator.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
verb:  (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
verb:  (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
verb:  (transitive) To place in the ground.
verb:  (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
verb:  (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
verb:  (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States.

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