Plant Power Noun Plɑːnt Plænt Light Water Flowering

• all plants need light and water.
• flowering plants
• native/medicinal/wild plants
• a tomato/potato plant

plant

1. a living thing that grows in the earth and usually has a stem, leaves and roots, especially one that is smaller than a tree or bush
• SEE ALSO air plant
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/air-plant
• All plants need light and water.
• flowering plants
• native/medicinal/wild plants
• a tomato/potato plant
• It's becoming more popular to grow plants organically.
• The area is home to many rare plant species.
• the animal and plant life of the area

Extra Examples

• Plants absorb carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.
• The butterfly's sole food plant is wild lupine.
• food plants of rare butterflies
2. a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place
• SEE ALSO power plant
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/power-plant
• a nuclear power plant
• a processing/manufacturing plant
• Japanese car plants
• a water treatment plant
• a chemical/steel/coal plant

Extra Examples

• a waste reprocessing plant
• a nuclear power plant
• a sewage (treatment) plant
• an assembly plant
3. the large machines that are used in industrial processes
• The company has been investing in new plant and equipment.
4. something that somebody has deliberately placed among another person’s clothes or possessions in order to make them appear guilty of a crime
• He claimed that the drugs found in his house were a plant.
5. a person who joins a group of criminals or enemies in order to get and secretly report information about their activities

Word Origin

• Old English plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ (later influenced by French plante) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’.