plants

Значение

plural of plant

Частота

Произносится как (IPA)

/plɑːnts/

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Новый

plant

1. An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
2. An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
3. Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
7. (obsolete,slang) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
8. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
9. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
10. A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
11. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
12. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
13. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
14. (slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
15. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
16. A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
17. The combination of process and actuator.