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How to sign: a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
Similiar / Same: plant life, flora
Within this category: acrogen, air plant, annual, apomict, aquatic, autophyte, biennial, cryptogam, embryo, endemic, escape, fungus, gametophyte, garden plant, houseplant, hygrophyte, monocarp, myrmecophyte, neophyte, ornamental, perennial, phytoplankton, plantlet, poisonous plant, pot plant, rock plant, sporophyte, vascular plant, wilding
How to sign: fix or set securely or deeply
"He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum";
Similiar / Same: implant, embed, imbed, engraft
Categories: enter, infix, insert, introduce
Within this category: bury, nest, pot
How to sign: buildings for carrying on industrial labor
"they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles";
Similiar / Same: works, industrial plant
Categories: building complex, complex
Within this category: bottling plant, distillery, factory, mint, packinghouse, recycling plant, refinery, saltworks, sewage disposal plant, smelter
How to sign: place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
"Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment";
Categories: lay, place, pose, position, put, set
How to sign: put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground
"Let's plant flowers in the garden";
Similiar / Same: set
Categories: lay, place, pose, position, put, set
Within this category: afforest, bed, checkrow, dibble, puddle, replant, root
How to sign: set up or lay the groundwork for
"establish a new department";
Similiar / Same: institute, establish, found, constitute
