Meaning

noun buildings for carrying on industrial labor

noun (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

noun an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

originFrom Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Proto-West Germanic *plantu, from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan (borrowed through Celtic languages) and planta (directly from Latin). The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old…

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