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noun 
  1. An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
  2. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Traditionally (up to early 20th Century), any of the plants, fungi, lichens, algae, etc.
  3. (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.
  4. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. (context, Ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
  5. An industrial installation, specifically the apparatus or machinery.
  6. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  7. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a ! I've never seen it before!
  1. A person, placed amongst an audience, whole role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  2. (context, snooker) A situation in which the cue ball hits one of a pair of touching (usually red) balls, in order to pot the other; a set.
verb 
  1. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  2. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
  1. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
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