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say it: plant
plant is a verb and noun meaning "put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground". It carries 10 recorded senses.
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
“Plant a spy in Moscow”
“plant bugs in the dissident's apartment”
buildings for carrying on industrial labor
“they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles”
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
something planted secretly for discovery by another
“the police used a plant to trick the thieves”
“he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
botany