PPage 365
- English Word Plant Definition To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
- English Word Plant Definition To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
- English Word Plant Definition To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
- English Word Plant Definition To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- English Word Plant Definition To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
- English Word Plant Definition To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
- English Word Plant Definition To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
- English Word Plant Definition To set up; to install; to instate.
- English Word Plant Definition To perform the act of planting.
- English Word Plant-cane Definition A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
- English Word Plant-eating Definition Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
- English Word Plantable Definition Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
- English Word Plantage Definition A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
- English Word Plantain Definition A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
- English Word Plantain Definition The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
- English Word Plantain Definition Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
- English Word Plantal Definition Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
- English Word Plantar Definition Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
- English Word Plantation Definition The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
- English Word Plantation Definition The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.