plant
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When plant helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A L N P T
Two-Letter Start
PL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
NT
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- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- PL start
- NT ending
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- plant is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, l, n, p, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- The NT ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the PL start.
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Pronunciation
noun
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.
"The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border."
noun
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.
noun
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
noun
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
noun
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
noun
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
"That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!"
noun
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
noun
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
noun
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
noun
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
noun
A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
noun
The sole of the foot.
noun
A plan; a swindle; a trick.
noun
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
noun
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
verb
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
verb
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
"That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!"
verb
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
"Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug."
verb
To place in the ground.
verb
To furnish or supply with plants.
"to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest"
verb
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
verb
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
"to plant a colony"
verb
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
"to plant Christianity among the heathen"
verb
To set up; to install; to instate.