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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.
Plantar
a.
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Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
Plantation
n.
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The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
Plantation
n.
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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.
Plantation
n.
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An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Plant-cane
n.
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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.
Plant-eating
a.
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Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
Planted
a.
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Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
Planter
n.
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One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
Planter
n.
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One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
Planter
n.
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A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Plantership
n.
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The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
Planticle
n.
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A young plant, or plant in embryo.
Plantigrada
n. pl.
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A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
Plantigrade
a.
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Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.