'Planting' definitions:
Definition of 'planting'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"
noun
A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
noun
Putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"
Definition of 'Planting'
From: GCIDE
- Plant \Plant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.]
- 1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. --Deut. xvi. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. [1913 Webster]
- It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. [1913 Webster]
- Planting of countries like planting of woods. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To set up; to install; to instate. [1913 Webster]
- We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Planting'
From: GCIDE
- Planting \Plant"ing\, n.
- 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is planted; a plantation. [1913 Webster]
- Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. --Isa. lxi. 3. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'planting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- broadcast,
- broadcasting,
- clump,
- crop,
- dissemination,
- growth,
- hassock,
- insemination,
- plantation,
- reforestation,
- resetting,
- retimbering,
- seeding,
- semination,
- setting,
- sowing,
- stand,
- transplantation,
- tuft,
- tussock
Words containing 'Planting'
- Plant,
- Planted,
- Cellular plants,
- Century plant,
- Coal plant,
- Compass plant,
- Cotton Plant,
- Dove plant,
- Fiber plants,
- Flowering plants,
- Flowerless plants,
- Foliage plant,
- Glue plant,
- Grapple plant,
- Hand plant,
- Host plant,
- Humble plant,
- Ice plant,
- Indigo plant,
- Ink plant,
- Jelly plant,
- La Plant,
- Lattice plant,
- Lead plant,
- Leafless plants,
- Leather plant,
- Moving plant,
- Musk plant,
- Pitcher plant,
- Plant City,
- Plant bug,
- Plant cutter,
- Plant louse,
- Pot plant,
- Resurrection plant,
- Rolling plant,
- Sensitive plant,
- Sleep of plants,
- Snow plant,
- Soap plant,
- Sporting plant,
- Stove plant,
- Tea plant,
- Telegraph plant,
- Tergiferous plants,
- Tetraspermous plant,
- Tortoise plant,
- Vascular plants,
- Vinegar plant,
- Water plant,
- Wax plant,
- Yeast plant,
- action plant,
- air plant,
- alliaceous plant,
- anise plant,
- aquatic plant,
- arborescent plant,
- artichoke plant,
- artillery plant,
- assembly plant,
- autophytic plant,
- bean plant,
- bedding plant,
- beef plant,
- beefsteak plant,
- belladonna plant,
- bog plant,
- bottling plant,
- bulbous plant,
- burn plant,
- butterfly plant,
- caricature plant,
- carnivorous plant,
- caryophyllaceous plant,
- chard plant,
- chemical plant,
- chickpea plant,
- chicory plant,
- chimney plant,
- christ plant,
- coca plant,
- composite plant,
- coriander plant,
- cormous plant,
- cowpea plant,
- cress plant,
- cruciferous plant,
- cruel plant,
- cultivated plant,
- deciduous plant,
- desert plant,
- disposal plant,
- electrical plant,
- epiphytic plant,
- evergreen plant,
- flamingo plant,
- flowering plant,
- friendship plant,
- garden plant,
- gas plant,
- graminaceous plant,
- gramineous plant,
- gum plant,
- heating plant,
- herbaceous plant,
- honey plant,
- hydrophytic plant,
- icicle plant,
- industrial plant,
- iridaceous plant,
- ivory plant,
- leguminous plant,
- lentil plant,
- leopard plant,
- ligneous plant,
- liliaceous plant,
- lipstick plant,
- lithophytic plant,
- lobster plant,
- manufacturing plant,
- marsh plant,
- mesophytic plant,
- mole plant,
- money plant,
- monocarpic plant,
- monocarpous plant,
- moth plant,
- nonflowering plant,
- nonvascular plant,
- obedience plant,
- obedient plant,
- oil plant,
- okra plant,
- onion plant,
- orchidaceous plant,
- oyster plant,
- packing plant,
- paper plant,
- parasitic plant,
- pea plant,
- pebble plant,
- pickaback plant,
- pie plant,
- piggyback plant,
- pineapple plant,
- pitcher plants,
- plant cell,
- plant closing,
- plant department,
- plant disease,
- plant eater,
- plant family,
- plant fiber,
- plant fibre,
- plant food,
- plant genus,
- plant hopper,
- plant hormone,
- plant kingdom,
- plant life,
- plant material,
- plant order,
- plant organ,
- plant part,
- plant process,
- plant product,
- plant scientist,
- plant structure,
- plant substance,
- plant tissue,
- plant toxin,
- plant virus,
- poisonous plant,
- poker plant,
- power plant,
- pyramid plant,
- radish plant,
- recycling plant,
- rhubarb plant,
- rock plant,
- rouge plant,
- rubber plant,
- rubiaceous plant,
- rupestral plant,
- rupestrine plant,
- rupicolous plant,
- rutabaga plant,
- saxicolous plant,
- seed plant,
- semaphore plant,
- shame plant,
- sheep plant,
- shoeblack plant,
- slipper plant,
- snake plant,
- soybean plant,
- spider plant,
- spinach plant,
- steel plant,
- stone plant,
- sun plant,
- sundew plant,
- swamp plant,
- tabasco plant,
- tapioca plant,
- taro plant,
- tobacco plant,
- tomato plant,
- tuberous plant,
- turnip plant,
- umbelliferous plant,
- umbrella plant,
- vascular plant,
- velvet plant,
- waterwheel plant,
- woody plant,
- xerophilous plant,
- xerophytic plant,
- yam plant,
- Age of coal plants,
- American pitcher plants,
- Australian pitcher plant,
- California pitcher plant,
- Cotton Plant, AR,
- Flax-plant,
- Holy Spirit plant,
- La Plant, SD,
- Plant City, FL,
- Plant-cane,
- Plant-eating,
- Wild sensitive plant,
- Wind-plant,
- capsicum pepper plant,
- castor bean plant,
- chinese lantern plant,
- chinese silk plant,
- common bean plant,
- common indigo plant,
- common pitcher plant,
- common unicorn plant,
- egg-plant,
- garden pea plant,
- golden honey plant,
- head cabbage plant,
- hooded pitcher plant,
- hot water plant,
- implanted planted rooted,
- jumping plant louse,
- lima bean plant,
- madia oil plant,
- mexican fire plant,
- mistletoe rubber plant,
- periwinkle plant derivative,
- poison arrow plant,
- purple velvet plant,
- roast beef plant,
- royal velvet plant,
- sewage disposal plant,
- shell bean plant,
- spanish oyster plant,
- stone mimicry plant,
- sweet corn plant,
- sweet pepper plant,
- sweet unicorn plant,
- tarnished plant bug,
- tropical pitcher plant,
- water chestnut plant,
- winter squash plant,
- witch hazel plant,
- woolly plant louse,
- wych hazel plant,
- yellow pitcher plant,
- Castor-oil plant,
- Grass-cloth plant,
- bar-room plant,
- broad-bean plant,
- butter-bean plant,
- cart-track plant,
- cast-iron plant,
- field-pea plant,
- india-rubber plant,
- kangaroo-foot plant,
- looking-glass plant,
- mother-in-law plant,
- non-flowering plant,
- pigeon-pea plant,
- pitcher-plant family,
- rocky mountain bee plant,
- four-lined plant bug,
- queensland grass-cloth plant,
- red-veined pie plant