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Plano-horizontal
a.
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Having a level horizontal surface or position.
Planometer
n.
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An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
Planometry
n.
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The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
Plano-orbicular
a.
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Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
Planorbis
n.
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Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
Plano-subulate
a.
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Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
Plant
n.
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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.
Plant
n.
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A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
Plant
n.
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The sole of the foot.
Plant
n.
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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.
Plant
n.
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A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
Plant
n.
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An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
Plant
n.
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A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
Planted
imp. & p. p.
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of Plant
Planting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Plant
Plant
n.
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To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
Plant
n.
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To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Plant
n.
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To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
Plant
n.
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To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
Plant
n.
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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Plant
n.
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To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
Plant
n.
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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.
Plant
n.
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To set up; to install; to instate.
Plant
v. i.
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To perform the act of planting.
Plantable
a.
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Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
Plantage
n.
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A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
Plantain
n.
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A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
Plantain
n.
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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.
Plantain
n.
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Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. 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.
Plantal
a.
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Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.