plant vs varmint

plant

noun
  • A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. 

  • To place in the ground. 

varmint

noun
  • An obnoxious person or troublemaker. 

  • A pestering animal such as one that kills or harasses a farmer's livestock or crops. 

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