Meanings (ES + gloss)
mata • planta • vegetable • vegetal
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.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization…
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
planta • vegetal
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.
fabricación
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!
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
plantar • sembrar • sementar
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
colocar • infiltrar
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing jou…
That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
colocar • plantar
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
Phrases