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Plant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A vegetable; an organic body, destitute of sense and spontaneous motion, adhering to another body in such a manner as to draw from it its nourishment, and having the power of propagating itself by seeds; 'whose seed is in itself.' Genesis 1:1 . This definition may not be perfectly correct, as it respects all plants, for some marine plants grow without being attached to any fixed body.

2. The woody or dicotyledonous plants consist of three parts; the bark or exterior coat, which covers the wood; the wood which is hard and constitutes the principal part; and the pith or center of the stem. In monocotyledonous plants, the ligneous or fibrous parts, and the pithy or parenchymatous, are equally distributed through the whole internal substance; and in the lower plants, funguses, sea weed, etc. the substance is altogether parenchymatous. By means of proper vessels, the nourishing juices are distributed to every part of the plant In its most general sense, plant comprehends all vegetables, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, etc. In popular language, the word is generally applied to the smaller species of vegetables.

3. A sapling.

4. In Scripture, a child; a descendant; the inhabitant of a country. Psalms 144:12 . Jeremiah 48:32 .

5. The sole of the foot. [Little used.]

6. Sea-plant, a plant that grows in the sea or in salt water; sea weed.

7. Sensitive plant a plant that shrinks on being touched, the mimosa.

Plant [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To perform the act of planting.

Plant [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maiz.

2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots.

3. To engender; to set the germ of any thing that may increase.

4. It engenders choler, planteth anger.

5. To set; to fix.

6. His standard planted on Laurentum's towers.

7. To settle; to fix the first inhabitants; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

8. To furnish with plants; to lay out and prepare with plants; as, to plant a garden or an orchard.

9. To set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort.

10. To introduce and establish; as, to plant christianity among the heathen.

11. I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 1 Corinthians 3:7 .

12. To unite to Christ and fix in a state of fellowship with him. Psalms 92:13 .

Plant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

2. A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

3. The sole of the foot.

4. The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

5. A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

6. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

7. A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

8. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

9. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

10. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

11. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

12. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

13. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

14. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

15. To set up; to install; to instate.

Plant [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To perform the act of planting.

Plant-cane [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

Plant-eating [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

Plant-louse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An insect that infests plants; a vine fretter; the puceron.

Plantable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Capable of being planted.

Plantable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Plantage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An herb, or herbs in general. [Not in use.]

Plantage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

Plantain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plant of the genus Plantago, of several species. The water plantain is of the genus Alisma.

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Plantain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.

3. Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

Plantain Encyclopedia Britannica

PLANTAIN (Lat. plantago), a name given to plants with broad palm-like leaves. This is the case with certain species of Plantago, Alisma, and Musa, to all of which the term is popularly applied. Of the Plantago little need be said here, the species being for the most part mere weeds, though one species, P. lanceolata, is eaten by cattle, and the seeds of another, P. major, are collected for the food of birds. Of far greater general importance is the genus Musa, to which belong the Plantain, and the Banana (g.v.). These are gigantic herbs, now diffused by cultivation throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, and sending up from a short thick underground stem shoots with a number of very large leaves, whose long, thick leafstalks are wrapped one round another. The blades are usually oblong-obtuse, like the blade of an oar, with a very thick midrib from which diverge on each side numerous parallel densely arranged secondary ribs. The flowers are borne in huge pendulous spikes provided with large boatshaped, often coloured, bracts, in whose axils the whorls of flowers are produced; the lower ones are usually female or hermaphrodite, those at the apex of the spike are male only. These flowers consist of a perianth of six divisions partly united below, slightly two-lipped above, and enclosing five perfect and one imperfect stamen. The ovary is inferior and three-celled—ripening into a long oblong fruit filled with spongy pulp, in which the numerous seeds are embedded. The accumulation of starch and sugar in this pulp renders the fruit of vast importance as an article of diet in the tropics. Corenwinder, cited by Pavy, says that, while starchy matter forms more than 19 per cent, of the ripe fruit—there is also nearly 5 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, about double that of ...

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Plantain-eater Encyclopedia Britannica

PLANTAIN-EATER. See Tourakoo.

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Plantain-tree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tree of the genus Musa, the most remarkable species of which are, the paradisiaca or plantain, and the sapietum or banana tree. The plantain rises with a soft stem fifteen or twenty feet high, and the fruit is a substitute for bread.

Plantal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Belonging to plants. [Not used.]

Plantal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

Plantar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

Plantation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.

2. The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like.

3. In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm. In the United States, this word is applied to an estate, a tract of land occupied and cultivated, in those states only where the labor is performed by slaves, and where the land is more or less appropriated to the culture of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton, that is, from Maryland to Georgia inclusive, on the Atlantic, and in the western states where the land is appropriated to the same articles or to the culture of the sugar cane. From Maryland, northward and eastward, estates in land are called farms.

4. An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted.

5. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut--

6. A colony.

7. A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England.

8. In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut.

Plantation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

Planted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Set in the earth for propagation; set; fixed; introduced; established.

2. Furnished with seeds or plants for growth; as a planted field.

3. Furnished with the first inhabitants; settled; as territory planted with colonists.

4. Filled or furnished with what is new.

5. A man in all the world's new fashion planted [ See Def .3.]

Planted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

Planted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Planter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that plants, sets, introduces or establishes; as a planter of maiz; a planter of vines; the planters of a colony.

2. One that settles in a new or uncultivated territory; as the first planters in Virginia.

3. One who owns a plantation; used in the West Indies and southern states of America.

4. One that introduces and establishes.

5. The apostles were the first planters of christianity.

Planter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

Plantership [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The business of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the West Indies.

Plantership [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

Planticle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A young plant or plant in embryo.

Planticle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A young plant, or plant in embryo.

Plantigrada [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.

Plantigrade [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

2. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.

Plantigrade [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.

Plantin Encyclopedia Britannica

PLANTIN, Christophe (1514-1589), born in a village near Tours (probably Saint-Avertin) in 1514, learned book-binding and book-selling at Caen, and, having married in that town, settled in 1549 as bookbinder in Antwerp, then the principal commercial town of the Netherlands, where he was soon known as the first in his profession. A bad wound in the arm, which unfitted him for this occupation, seems to have been the cause that first led him (about 1555) to apply himself to typography. The first known book printed in his office was La Institutione di una fanciulla nata nobilmente, by J. Μ. Bruto, with a French translation, and this was soon followed by many other works in French and Latin, which in point of execution rivalled the best printing of his time, while the masters in the art of engraving then flourishing in the Netherlands illustrated many of his editions. In 1562, Plantin himself being absent in Paris, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, which caused his movables to be seized and sold. It seems, however, that he recovered a great deal of the'money, and in 1563 he associated himself with some friends to carry on his business on a larger scale. Among them were two grand-nephews of Dan. Bomberg, who furnished him with the fine Hebrew types of that renowned Venetian printer. He was now in a position to spare no expense in printing his books with all the care he deemed necessary; and his editions of the Bible in Hebrew, Latin, and Dutch, his Corpus Juris, Latin and Greek classics, and many other works produced at this period are renowned for their beautiful execution and accuracy. A much greater enterprise was planned by him in those years—the publication of a Biblia Polyglotta, which should fix the original text of Old and New Testaments on a scientific ...

Besides the polyglott Bible, Plantin published in those years many other works of note, such as editions of St Augustine and St Jerome, the botanical works of Dodonaeus, Clusius, and Lobelius, the description of the Netherlands by Guicciardini, <fcc. In 1575 his printing-office reckoned more than twenty presses and seventy-three workmen, besides a similar number that worked for the office at home. But soon there came bad times for Antwerp. In November 1576 the town was plundered and in part burnt by the Spaniards, and Plantin had to pay an exorbitant ransom. A great many inhabitants of the once flourishing city emigrated, and Plantin also thought of settling elsewhere. He established a branch of his office in Paris; and when in 1583 the states of Holland sought a typographer for the newly erected university at Leyden, and invited him to occupy this place, he left his much reduced business in Antwerp to his sons-in-law John Moerentorf (Moretus) and Francis van Ravel-inghen (Raphelengius), and settled at Leyden. But he could not thrive, it seems, in Holland. When in 1585 Antwerp was taken by the prince of Parma and affairs became there more settled, he left the office in Leyden to Raphelengius and returned to Antwerp, excusing himself for having served the states of the revolted provinces by the difficulties of his situation. In Antwerp he laboured till his death on the 1st July 1589. His son-in-law, John Moretus, and his descendants continued to print many works of note “in officina Plantiniana,” but from the second half of the 17th century the house began to decline. It continued, however, in the possession of the Moretus family, which religiously left all the old things in the office untouched, and when in 1876 the town of Antwerp acquired the old buildings with all their contents, for 1,200,000 francs, the authorities were able with little trouble to create one of the most remarkable museums in existence (Musée Plantin, opened 19th August 1877).

See Max Rooses, Christophe Plantin imprimeur Anversois, Antwerp, 1882; Aug. de Backer and Ch. Ruelens, Annales de Γimprimcrie Plantinienne, Brussels, 1865; Degeorge, La maison Plantin, 2d ed., Brussels, 1878.

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Planting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.

Planting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Setting in the earth for propagation; setting; settling; introducing; establishing.

Planting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.

2. That which is planted; a plantation.

3. The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.

Planting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Planting Encyclopedia Britannica

PLANTING. See Arboriculture.

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Genesis 1:11

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:12

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:29

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Genesis 1:30

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 2:5

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

Genesis 3:18

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Genesis 21:33

And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Exodus 9:22

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 9:25

And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

Exodus 10:12

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 15:17

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance— the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

Leviticus 19:23

And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

Numbers 24:6

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

Deuteronomy 6:11

And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 20:6

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.