A vegetable; an organic body, destitute of sense and spontaneous motion, adhering to another body in such a manner as to draw from it its nourishment, and having the power of propagating itself by seeds; “whose seed is in itself.” Genesis 1:11-

This definition may not be perfectly correct, as it respects all plants, for some marine plants grow without being attached to any fixed body. The woody or dicotyledonous plants consist of three parts; the bark or exterior coat, which covers the wood; the wood which is hard and constitutes the principal part; and the pith or center of the stem. In monocotyledonous plants, the ligneous or fibrous parts, and the pithy or parenchymatous, are equally distributed through the whole internal substance; and in the lower plants, funguses, sea weedthe substance is altogether parenchymatous. By means of proper vessels, the nourishing juices are distributed to every part of the plant. In its most general sense, plant comprehends. all vegetables, trees, shrubs, herbs, grassesIn popular language, the word is generally applied to the smaller species of vegetables.

A sapling.

In Scripture, a child; a descendant; the inhabitant of a country. Psalm 144:12; Jeremiah 48:32.

The sole of the foot. Sea-plant, a plant that grows in the sea or in salt water; sea weed. Sensitive plant, a plant that shrinks on being touched, the mimosa.

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maiz.

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots.

To engender; to set the germ of any thing that may increase. It engenders choler, planteth anger.

To set; to fix. His standard planted on Laurentum’s towers.

To settle; to fix the first inhabitants; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

To furnish with plants; to lay out and prepare with plants; as, to plant a garden or an orchard.

To set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort.

To introduce and establish; as, to plant christianity among the heathen. I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. Corinthians 3:6.

To unite to Christ and fix in a state of fellowship with him. Psalm 92:13.

To perform the act of planting.