To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place in the ground.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
The combination of process and actuator.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
The act of uprooting something.