to plant
- verb
- /plænt/
- The next thing is you need to plant many seeds.
- plant trees
- plant crops
- plant a garden
I think what I want to do is plant them probably.
- I think what I want to do is plant them probably.
- You can't, you can't part, you can't plant carrots in your Parkway.
- They didn't have grain to plant for the next harvest.
- I got a download that was, I don't plant trees, I plant seeds.
- If you want apple tree, you need to plant the apple seed.
- Which should still be fast enough for us to plant several trees per minute.
- Like the world is great when old men plant trees who shade they'll never know.
- Now to get your shovel and start digging, plant that tree.
- So let's just plant trees them and solve all our problems.
- No way they plant seeds with planes.
- Also, you know, they, they plants, they plant out what they, what they want.
- The first seed group they just planted properly sunshine.
- You know, I was experienced first time plant this American soil my food.
- What you don't plant won't multiply what you neglect.
Examples
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He wanted to move to West Cork and plant trees with his wife.
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Yesterday we planted a tree in my yard.
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Which should still be fast enough for us to plant several trees per minute.
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If you want apple tree, you need to plant the apple seed.
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Will you help me plant my corn?
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In Jordan, the government committed to planting a tree for each child born.
Academic text (1990) -
Despite rainy weather, the students were thrilled to go outside and plant their gardens.
Academic text (2012) -
I want to plant some herbs on our balcony.
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I want to plant some flowers in my garden this spring.
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Will you help me plant the vegetables in our kitchen garden?
Synonyms
To plant seeds in the ground so they grow
To put a plant or cutting in soil so it can grow roots
To put seeds in the ground to grow plants
To put seeds in the ground so they can grow
To plant seeds in the ground so they can grow
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
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
- UK
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
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Etymology
Plant as a verb meaning to put seeds or young plants in the ground comes from Latin planta, 'young shoot'. So to plant is to put a seed or seedling into soil so it can grow.