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# plant

«plant» in Mova's school dictionary: **a living thing that grows in soil, like a flower, grass…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plant, plants); verb (plant, plants, planted, planting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A plant is a living thing that grows in soil, like a flower, grass or a tree. Most plants are green and make their own food from sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#m1)

2) To plant is to put seeds or plants in the ground so they grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#m2)

3) A plant is also a factory or big machine: a power plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#m3)

4) To plant can mean to put something firmly in place: she planted her feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: plants counted in rows; seeds planted; plants growing in height («grows … each week»). In science: parts of a plant (roots, stem, leaves, flowers), what plants need (light, water, air, warmth), photosynthesis. In everyday life: gardening, houseplants. In stories: «planted a clue».

### examples

- She plants 5 rows of 6 flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x1)
- The plant grows 2 cm each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x2)
- He has 12 plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x3)
- How many plants are in the garden? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x4)
- Plants need water and sunlight to grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x5)
- The roots hold the plant in the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x6)
- We planted bean seeds in paper cups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x7)
- The power plant makes electricity for the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x8)
- Some plants, like poison ivy, can hurt your skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x9)
- The dwarf stood gazing at the plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/#x10)

### note

Rows × per row gives the total. «Grows … each week» is a rate. Trap: as a verb «plant» is the action, the thing counted is seeds or trees. Plants make their food using sunlight (photosynthesis) and give off oxygen. Safety: never eat a plant or berry unless an adult says it is safe.

### In the corpora

- [Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/17/)
- [Almost all the oxygen we breathe was made by plants and tiny algae in the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/9/)
- [Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/11/)
- [Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/12/)
- [Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.