plant
- noun
- /plænt/
- She was careful not to reveal too much, knowing a plant might be listening.
And you can tell when someone is not a plant in the audience.
- And you can tell when someone is not a plant in the audience.
- I mean, he's a, he's a perfect Rothschild plant.
- And Christy, my wife says, oh, I just realized she's a plant.
- Another on the opposite end of the spectrum would be the plants told us.
Examples
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The plant will work their way into the life of the target.
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He is a plant, just like your wife, to keep you in line.
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And you can tell when someone is not a plant in the audience.
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Someone right here in this plant... and we're going to find out who.
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At worst, an enemy plant.
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He could be a plant.
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As to the question, does anybody really believe this plant is a real Romney/Ryan supporter?
Blog text (15) -
You're a plant!
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As such, it would not prevent prosecutors from using confidential informants and jail plants to interrogate suspects.
Academic text (2017) -
The detective suspected that there was a plant among the informants providing false information.
Synonyms
A person who secretly works inside an organization to pass information to an enemy
Idioms
Compounds
A place where old paper, glass, and plastic are cleaned and made ready to be used again
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A tiny living part of a plant with a stiff wall, green chloroplasts, and a large storage space inside
Large tropical tree often kept indoors as a houseplant that can make natural rubber
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A plant with long narrow leaves and small white or pink flowers often grown indoors
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A poisonous plant with bell-shaped flowers and shiny black berries used to make atropine
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A place where dirty water and other waste are cleaned and made safe
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A plant in the potato and tomato family that can be dangerous to eat
The part of a company that builds, maintains, and looks after its buildings and machines
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A sickness that harms plants, often caused by fungi, bacteria, or viruses
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A natural chemical in plants that controls their growth and responses
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A plant grown for its leaves that are dried and made into cigarettes or cigars
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A plant with special tubes that carry water and nutrients, like ferns or trees
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A South American garden plant with green, purple, or red leaves and small woolly flower spikes
A South American herb with colorful leaves and small woolly flower spikes grown for gardens
A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
A flowering plant with colorful, often fragrant flowers that look like butterflies
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A tropical plant that grows peppers used in cooking or as spice
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A marsh plant from northern California and Oregon with twisted cup-shaped leaves that trap insects and hanging yellow-green flowers
A tropical shrub with purple or red tube-shaped flowers and leaves with patterns like a human face
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
A large tropical bush with wide leaves that has seeds used for castor oil and contains a poison called ricin
How Hidden
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plant for a person put secretly comes from the verb 'to plant', meaning to put something carefully in a place, like planting a tree. A helpful way to remember is to think of a spy 'planted' in a crowd — put there on purpose to watch or trick others.