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▸ 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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