(Bot.) A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The “Florida moss” (Tillandsia, many tropical orchids, and most mosses and lichens are air plants. Those which are lodged upon trees, but not parasitic on them, such as the Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides), are epiphytes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. contemplans, p. pr. ] Given to contemplation; meditative. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. de- + plan: cf. F. déplanter, L. deplantare to take off a twig. See Plant, v. t. ] To take up (plants); to transplant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déplantation. ] Act of taking up plants from beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Displanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Displanting. ] [ Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter. ] 1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did not think a look,
Or a poor word or two, could have displanted
Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, glossy, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. It is widely cultivated for its fruit, commonly eaten as a vegetable.
Syn. -- eggplant, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The fruit of the eggplant{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Agric.) A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Implanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Implanting. ] [ Pref. im- in + plant: cf. F. implanter. ] To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. implantation. ] The act or process of implanting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Lamina + L. planta sole of the foot. ] (Zool.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shrub (Amorpha canescens) of sandy woodlands and streambanks of the Western U. S. having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; it is thought to indicate the presence of lead ore.
Syn. -- lead plant, Amorpha canescens. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The Madia sativa, a South American herb with sticky glandular foliage, the source of madia oil. See Madia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A factory.
Syn. -- mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. plante, L. planta. ] 1. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Plants are divided by their structure and methods of reproduction into two series, phænogamous or flowering plants, which have true flowers and seeds, and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores. In both series are minute and simple forms and others of great size and complexity. [ 1913 Webster ] As to their mode of nutrition, plants may be considered as self-supporting and dependent. Self-supporting plants always contain chlorophyll, and subsist on air and moisture and the matter dissolved in moisture, and as a general rule they excrete oxygen, and use the carbonic acid to combine with water and form the material for their tissues. Dependent plants comprise all fungi and many flowering plants of a parasitic or saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have no chlorophyll, and subsist mainly or wholly on matter already organized, thus utilizing carbon compounds already existing, and not excreting oxygen. But there are plants which are partly dependent and partly self-supporting. [ 1913 Webster ] The movements of climbing plants, of some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of zoospores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. “A plant of stubborn oak.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sole of the foot. [ R. ] “Knotty legs and plants of clay.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Com.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) (a) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. (b) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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Plant bug (Zool.), any one of numerous hemipterous insects which injure the foliage of plants, as Lygus lineolaris, which damages wheat and trees. --
Plant cutter (Zool.), a South American passerine bird of the genus Phytotoma, family Phytotomidæ. It has a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injury. --
Plant louse (Zool.), any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families Aphidæ and Psyllidæ; an aphid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting. ] [ AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n. ] 1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. Deut. xvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. [ 1913 Webster ]

It engenders choler, planteth anger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To set up; to install; to instate. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will plant some other in the throne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform the act of planting. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have planted; Apollos watered. 1 Cor. iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being planted; fit to be planted. B. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. [ 1913 Webster ]

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. (Troil. iii. sc. 2). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. plantago. Cf. Plant. ] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the Plantago 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. --
Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. --
Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. --
Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. --
Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America. --
Water plantain, a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. plantain-arbre, plantanier, Sp. plántano, plátano; prob. same word as plane tree. ] 1. (Bot.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plantain cutter, or
Plantain eater (Zool.), any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagidæ, especially Musophaga violacea. See Turaco. They are allied to the cuckoos. --
Plantain squirrel (Zool.), a Java squirrel (Sciurus plantani) which feeds upon plantains. --
Plantain tree (Bot.), the treelike herb Musa paradisiaca. See def. 1 (above). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. planta a plant. ] Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. plantaris, fr. planta the sole of the foot. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation. ] 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. [ 1913 Webster ]

While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Joinery) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a movable box or a fixed low, open structure, as of brick, in which plants are grown for decorative purposes. [ PJC ]

n. The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of Plant. ] A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. planta sole of the foot + gradi to walk: cf. F. plantigrade. ] (Zool.) (a) Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. (b) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is planted; a plantation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. Isa. lxi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without plants; barren of vegetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Planter + -cracy, as in democracy. ] Government by planters; planters, collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of plante a plant, L. planta. ] (Bot.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To implant again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plant again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be planted again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of planting again; a replanting. [ R. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scutellus a shield + planta foot. ] (Zool.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Supplanted p. pr. & vb. n. Supplanting. ] [ F. supplanter, L. supplantare to trip up one's heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, a sucker, slip, sprout. Cf. Plant, n. ] 1. To trip up. [ Obs. ] “Supplanted, down he fell.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To displace and take the place of; to supersede; to remove or displace by stratagem; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of. [ obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You never will supplant the received ideas of God. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To remove (a thing) and replace it with something else. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To remove; displace; overpower; undermine; overthrow; supersede. [ 1913 Webster ]