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Adjective: planted  plãn-tid
  1. Set in the soil for growth
     
  2. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held
    "a deeply planted need";
    - deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained, well-established
Verb: plant  plãnt
  1. Put (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
    "Let's plant flowers in the garden";
    - set
     
  2. Fix or set securely or deeply
    "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent";
    - implant, engraft, embed, imbed
     
  3. Set up or lay the groundwork for
    - establish, found, constitute, institute
     
  4. (animal husbandry) place into a river
    "plant fish"
     
  5. Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
    "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
     
  6. Put firmly in the mind
    "Plant a thought in the students' minds";
    - implant

See also: constituted, cropped, established, naturalised [Brit], naturalized, potbound, quickset, rootbound, seeded, self-seeded, self-sowed, self-sown, soil-building, sown

Type of: communicate, enter, infix, initiate, insert, introduce, lay, pass, pass along, pass on, pioneer, place, pose, position, put, put across, set, stock

Antonym: unplanted

Encyclopedia: Planted

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