to plant
- verb
- /plænt/
- Others do not plant at all, but only fish the natural oysters from the bed to sell to 'lugger men.'
- plant trout
- plant fish
- plant hatchery fish
Examples
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"But that doesn't mean that you couldn't plant some other kind of fish in there."
Fiction book (1993) -
The biologist decided to plant salmon in the river to help increase their numbers.
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In November 2005, the Virginia Seafood Council asked the state's Marine Resources Commission to plant 10,000 nominally sterile Asian oysters into a Chesapeake tributary, rather than wait for scientific assessments to be completed.
Academic text (2005) -
The conservation team worked tirelessly to plant new fish in the lake to restore the ecosystem.
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They plan to plant catfish in the pond to help balance the aquatic life.
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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 meaning to put fish into a river comes from the same sense of placing living things where they can grow. So to plant fish is to put young fish into a lake or stream to help their numbers grow.