plant

n 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.  [quotations ▼] The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border. (botany) 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. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before! Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.  [quotations ▼] A large piece of machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.  [quotations ▼] (obsolete) The sole of the foot.  [quotations ▼] (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.  [quotations ▼] An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.