plant
n. countablen. a living thing that grows in the ground. Plants usually have leaves, a stem, and roots, and they get their energy from sunlight.
n. a living organism of the kingdom Plantae, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesising nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis.
Every room in my house has a plant.
This plant needs a lot of sunlight, so you should keep it near a window.
The botanist discovered a rare plant species deep in the rainforest, one previously unknown to science and potentially holding medicinal properties.
From 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 English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”). The factory and machinery senses comes from the Latin sense of "any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species," which refers to something that produces.