plant

1. plant (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

Example: The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.

2. plant (noun) — sense 2

Definition: An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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. plant (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

4. plant (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

5. plant (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To furnish or supply with plants.

Example: to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

6. plant (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

Example: That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!