Plant

Morpheme

Plant

Type

free base

Denotation

nonanimal organism capable of photosynthesis, vegetable part that serves to propagate the species, young shoot or sprout, sole of foot, flat surface

Etymology

Middle English planten, plante; Old English plantian, plante; Latin plantāre, planta

Evidence

allotransplantation, distoplantar, dorsoplantar, faceplant, houseplant, implant, implantation, intradermoplantar, intraplantar, lateroplantar, medioplantar, midplantar, nonplantar, plant, planta, plantable, plantage, plantar, plantarum, plantation, planted, planter, planting, plantography, plants, preimplant, reimplant, transplant, transplantation, unplantable, unplanting, xenotransplantation

Notes

also influened by Old French planter, plante
plant and planta are doublets