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Planting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PLANT'ING, ppr. Setting in the earth for propagation; setting; settling; introducing; establishing.
PLANT'ING, n. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"
2: a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
3: putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1535 an area where plants are grown for commercial or decorative purposes; also the plants cultivated in such an area

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Plant Plant, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.] 1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. 2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. --Deut. xvi. 21. 3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. 4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak. 5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. --Bacon. 6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. 7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face. 8. To set up; to install; to instate. We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Planting Plant"ing, n. 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. 2. That which is planted; a plantation. Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. --Isa. lxi. 3. 3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [Eng.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see plant

Moby Thesaurus

broadcast, broadcasting, clump, crop, dissemination, growth, hassock, insemination, plantation, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, seeding, semination, setting, sowing, stand, transplantation, tuft, tussock