Synonyms of plants

plants 1 of 2

noun

plural of plant

as in factories

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods

a furniture plant that employs hundreds of people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• factories
• mills
• works
• shops
• workshops
• manufactories
• workplaces
• studios
• yards
• sweatshops
• workrooms
• ateliers

plants

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of plant

1

as in seeds

to put or set into the ground to grow

I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seeds
• drills
• transplants
• beds
• puts in
• sows
• scatters
• pots
• replants
• broadcasts
• reseeds
• overseeds

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gathers
• reaps
• harvests

2

as in founds

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founds
• establishes
• institutes
• initiates
• creates
• pioneers
• launches
• introduces
• constructs
• begins
• authors
• constitutes
• starts
• inaugurates
• manufactures
• originates
• sets up
• fathers
• innovates
• organizes
• produces
• develops
• funds
• devises
• cooks (up)
• invents
• thinks (up)
• finances
• conceives
• concocts
• expands
• subsidizes
• fabricates
• contrives
• systemizes
• makes up
• enlarges
• endows
• systematizes
• arranges
• refounds
• reinstitutes
• reinitiates
• puts up
• relaunches

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closes (down)
• shuts (up)
• stops
• ends
• finishes
• abolishes
• nullifies
• annihilates
• phases out
• annuls
• halts
• winds up
• terminates
• rounds (off or out)
• wraps up

3

as in breeds

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set

a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• breeds
• roots
• implants
• lodges
• sows
• embeds
• inculcates
• inseminates
• instills
• enroots
• infixes
• drives
• pounds
• hammers
• invests
• inoculates
• infuses
• suffuses
• imbues
• entrenches
• steeps
• fixes
• ingrains

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of plants

Noun

For example, China turned off 3 million barrels per day in refinery output, according to JPMorgan, as the government massively ramped up its coal-firing plants and electric vehicle push. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026

Unlike other apps that identify plants based on your phone's camera, the Michigan Flora app asks questions to help users identify plants using their own observations. — Jack Springgate, CBS News, 13 July 2026

From cars to airplanes, ships to power generation plants, heat engines are everywhere. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026

Petunias bloom until the first hard frost, so there’s still time left in the season for these plants to continue to put out colorful blooms. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 July 2026

Instead, choose plants (especially natives) that match your site’s light, soil, and moisture conditions. — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026

The company is putting together a potential modern-day materials colossus that, pending closure, would include the key materials needed to make semiconductors — Club name Qnity is a big competitor — and run nuclear power plants . — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026

Verb

The story follows one family who plants bulbs, seeds and seedlings to create a rainbow of blooming flowers. — Lesly Gregory, AJC.com, 1 July 2026

Space plants 12 inches apart and water at the base to prevent powdery mildew. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026

An attacker plants instructions in content the model will later read on someone else's behalf. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Pruning leaves plants more vulnerable to drying out and reduces their energy reserves, which plants need to survive spells of hot, dry weather. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2026

Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 29 May 2026

What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions. — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026

Gardening expert Kris Bordessa also plants as deeply as possible. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 15 May 2026