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A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." Dryden.

A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted. B. Edwards.

A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. (Troil. iii. sc. 2).

iaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.]

Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.

A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.

Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.

n 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.

Without plants; barren of vegetation.

A little plant.

Government by planters; planters, collectively. [R.]

The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.