plant – English noun declension

English noun forms of plant

Noun: plant
Singularplant
Pluralplants

Sample Sentences

  • The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
  • In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction. [2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 217:]
  • Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of ſtubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a ſturdy ſtroke: / Or with hard Stones, demoliſh from afar / His haughty Creſt, the feat of all the War. [1694, “The Third Book of Virgil's Georgicks”, in John Dryden, transl., The Annual Miscellany, for the Year 1694, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1708, page 185:]
  • Some plants, such as mushrooms found in the wild, are difficult to identify. Some plants are poisonous, and an inexperienced individual may make mistakes in identification of wild plants, with tragic results. [2007 November 19, Ping-chung Leung, Harry H S Fong, Alternative Treatment For Cancer, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 205:]
  • The company has production plants in three countries.
  • My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.
  • The US group does have another vaccine plant in Ireland – in Carlow – but it is understood the Dundalk site is the only live virus vaccine facility in MSD’s Irish network. [2025 6 Jan, Dominic Coyle, “Drug giant MSD buys Wuxi’s Irish vaccines plant in €500m deal”, in The Irish Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2025:]
  • Near-synonym: capital equipment
  • industrial plant
  • refrigeration plant
  • A massive amount of plant has been trucked in and installed over the past two years, and production is expected to begin soon.
  • And Dan indignantly waved his long, brown arm over the plant, which consisted of the engine, the boring apparatus, and a dilapidated spring-cart that was pulled by a lean, lonely-looking horse[.] [1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 1:]
  • Nigger smoke-talks had told him of the patrol and of Felix’s mustering plant. Once he had absorbed the ‘outside’ news the night’s new the conversation started in earnest. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 44:]
  • That gun’s not mine! It’s a plant! I’ve never seen it before!
  • O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds. [2008 April 28, Phil Yates, The Times:]
  • The company's product range includes tools, construction plant, diggers, dumpers and rollers. [2007 January 26, “HSS buys Laois tool hire business”, in RTÉ News, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2025:]
  • Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for eaſe, or love delay. [1611, Ben Jonson, “Oberon, the Faery Prince”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume V, London: D. Midwinter et al., published 1756, page 384:]
  • It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you. [1850 March 30, Charles Dickens, “A Detective Police Party”, in Household Words, volume 1, page 413:]
  • Now, Max, by what combination of circumstances is a rogue to know my password, to be able to forge my signature, to possess himself of my key, and to resemble me personally? And, finally, how is he possibly to determine beforehand whether there is anything in my safe to repay so elaborate a plant? [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
5. Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂
6. Proto-Italic *plāntā?
7. Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-der.
8. Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk /*gteh₂
9. Proto-Italic *plānktā
10. Latin plantabor.
11. Proto-West Germanic *plantu
12. Old English plante
13. Middle English plante
14. English plant
15. 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).
16. 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”).
17. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'plante', Old English Nouns 'plante', Latin Nouns 'planta', Old English Nouns 'plantian', Latin Nouns 'plantō', Icelandic Nouns 'planta'.