Word Finder - planted

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To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

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To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

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That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

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To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

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Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.

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To place in the ground.

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To furnish or supply with plants.

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to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

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To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

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to plant a colony

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To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

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to plant Christianity among the heathen

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To set up; to install; to instate.

He planted a small garden.

He planted a lingering kiss on her lips and drew back.

There was no humidity, an ideal temperature and enough of a breeze to perfume the air with the zillion flowers recently wakened after a tough winter or per­haps just planted to welcome the approaching summer season.

She planted her hands on her hips.

He planted his feet and dropped the rope in an effort to help her up.

He planted a hand on either side of her, dark eyes piercing.

He planted his hands on either side of her and lowered his face to her level, forcing her to meet his gaze.

She planted her hand on his forehead, coolness flowing through her.

He planted his hands on either side of her and lowered his face to her level.

But if he planted a bottle in Billy's vehicle after the accident, it's his word against mine the alcohol wasn't there at the time of the accident.

Rhyn planted one foot at the base of Kiki.s neck and wrenched his head back.

It doesn't matter who planted the seed.

He basically followed old agriculture; he planted a lot of seed and hoped for rain.

Aggravated by her second display of defiance in one night, he crossed to her and planted his hands on either side of her chair, demanding her attention.

She planted her hands on her hips, tempted but not about to do it, now the she knew he wanted her to.

The corms should be planted not less than 3 in.

Cigar tobaccos become coarse if planted too widely.

All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.

Her soul had been planted into the human's head upon birth.

Only a part of the great estates is ever planted in any one season.

A colony was planted here by the Triumviri.

Cultures of the typhoid organism planted at a depth of 18 in.

An acre of tobacco planted 3 ft.

The mango is planted with the royal palm along the avenues of the plantations.

In the season of 1904-1905, which may be taken as typical, 179 estates, with a planted area of 431,056 acres, produced 11,576,137 tons of cane, and yielded - in addition to alcohol, brandy and molasses-1,089,814 tons of sugar.

Of other agricultural crops those of fruits are of greatest importance - bananas (which are planted about once in three years), pine-apples (planted about once in five years), coco-nuts, oranges, &c. The coco-nut industry has long been largely confined to the region about Baracoa, owing to the ruin of the trees elsewhere by a disease not yet thoroughly understood, which, appearing finally near Baracoa, threatened by 1908 to destroy the industry there as well.

In the business part the buildings are also for the most part imposing and the thoroughfares spacious, while the chief suburban streets are planted with trees.

In 1679 Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (Duluth), as agent for a company of Canadian merchants which sought to establish trading posts on the Lakes, explored the country from the head of Lake Superior to Mille Lacs and planted the arms of Louis XIV.

Only the multitude of small gardens, planted with limes, acacias and lilacs, and the bright costumes of the Servian or Hungarian peasants, remain to distinguish it from a western capital.

The seedlings rapidly developed and in most places in which they were planted grew into large trees which furnished satisfactory latex when tapped in their sixth or seventh year.

Africa the Hevea which has been planted promises well, especially in the Gold Coast, where good yields of latex are stated to have been obtained.

The tree has been planted in other countries, but has so far not received much attention.

Small Russian settlements are planted on a few bays of the North Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as on Sakhalin.

The hills also, as far as possible, are terraced for cultivation and in some instances are planted with dwarf pine and scrub oak.

Some time before the period at which these captaincies were established, a factory had been planted at Pernambuco.

The 4th duke planted several square miles of the estate with this tree, of which he had made a special study.

The Australian Eucalyptus and Casuarina in great variety, and many other imported trees, including syringas, wattles, acacias, willows, pines, cypress, cork and oak all thrive when properly planted and protected from grass fires.

The black wattle has been extensively planted and flourishes at elevations of from 1000 to 3000 ft.

In 1905 the production of wattle bark was 13,620 tons, and the area planted with the tree over 60,000 acres.

Ladislaus planted large Petcheneg colonies in Transylvania and the trans-Dravian provinces, and established military cordons along the constantly threatened south-eastern boundary, the germs of the future banates 1 (bansagok) which were to play such an important part in the national defence in the following century.

The border counties, now formed into a military zone, were planted exclusively with Croatian colonists as being more trustworthy defenders of the Hungarian frontier than the Hungarians themselves.

The crocus succeeds in any fairly good garden soil, and is usually planted near the edges of beds or borders in the flower garden, or in broadish patches at intervals along the mixed borders.

It was planted on graves, and is often connected with Persephone, who appears crowned with a garland of asphodels.

The favourite attitude, one leg planted firmly before the other, shows the right leg fully exposed.

The ground has to be thoroughly cleared of stones, manured and trenched, and the corms are planted in ridges.

They are traversed by the Anapus, with its tributary the Cyane, the latter famous for the papyrus planted by the Arabs, which here alone in Europe grows wild in the stream.

When they came into a hot climate the fire of the sacrifices and domestic cookery was removed out of the house; but the dead were probably still for a while buried in or near it, and the tulsi was planted over their graves, at once for the salubrious fragrance it diffuses and to represent the burning of incense on the altar of the family Lar.

He planted his ordnance on Hay Hill, and then marched by St James's Palace to Charing Cross.

There, under the shadow of the elm trees which Bacon had planted, Pepys and his wife constantly walked.

Most of these works were planted about the slender reach situated about 10 m.