What is the meaning of plant?

noun

• Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
  • usage: "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
  • synonyms: works, industrial plant
• Botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion.
  • synonyms: flora, plant life
• An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.
• Something planted secretly for discovery by another.
  • usage: "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

verb

• Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.
  • usage: "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
  • synonyms: set
• Fix or set securely or deeply.
  • usage: "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
  • synonyms: implant, engraft, embed, imbed
• Set up or lay the groundwork for.
  • usage: "establish a new department"
  • synonyms: establish, found, constitute, institute
• Place into a river.
  • usage: "plant fish"
• Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive.
  • usage: "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
• Put firmly in the mind.
  • usage: "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
  • synonyms: implant