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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLANTS . In the most generally used sense, a plant is a member of the See also:

lower or See also:vegetable See also:order of living organized things; the See also:term is also popularly applied to the smaller herbaceous plants, thus excluding trees and shrubs. The See also:early use of the word is for a twig, shoot, cutting or sapling, which was the meaning of See also:Lat. planta (for plancta, the See also:root being that seen in planes, See also:flat, cf. Gr. irXaris, broad; planta thus meant a spreading shoot or sucker). Other meanings of " plant " are derived from the verb " to plant " (Lat. planlare, to See also:fix in position or See also:place). It is thus used of the See also:fixtures, machinery, apparatus necessary for the carrying on of an See also:industry or business, and in colloquial or See also:slang use, of a swindle, a carefully arranged See also:plot or See also:trap laid or fixed to deceive; cf. also See also:PLANTATION.

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