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Synonyms for plant

Most common

institute seed grow

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

2. Implant

implant, embed, engraft rare

3. Seed

seed, seed down, sow

Noun

Definitions

  1. v. 1

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

  2. v. 2

    To furnish or supply with plants.

    to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

  3. v. 3

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

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

  4. n. 1

    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.

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

Forms

Plural
plants → vegetables, herbs, factories, floras…
Past participle
planted
e.g. planted → founded, established, instituted, constituted…

Example sentences

  • institute The education in that institute is simply pathetic.
  • seed Poppy seed cake is traditionally baked for Easter.
  • grow "I will grow many trees here", he said to himself.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
plantfalling
institutefalling
seedfalling
growrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
set1, fix1, sow1
4 letters
grow1, seed1, herb1
5 letters
found1, place1, works1, stick1, pitch1, lodge1, flora2, embed2
6 letters
settle2
7 letters
factory3, implant2, engraft
9 letters
institute3, establish3, introduce3, vegetable3
10 letters
constitute3
11 letters
infiltrator4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (flora2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
planter
Italiano
piantare
Español
plantar
Deutsch
Pflanzen
Català
plantar