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planta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • facility noun A building, room or piece of equipment set up and used for a particular activity or service.
  • factory noun A building where goods are manufactured, usually on a large scale using machinery.
  • floor noun The surface on which you walk inside a room or building.
  • plant noun A living organism, typically rooted in soil, that makes its own food through photosynthesis — trees, flowers, grasses, and similar life forms.
  • sole adjective Being the only one; single, exclusive.
  • storey noun A level or floor of a building.
  • vegetable noun A plant, or part of a plant, grown to be eaten — such as the leaves, roots, or stems — that isn't classified as a fruit, grain, herb, or spice.

Senses

planta is used for these senses in English:

  • facility A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
  • factory A building or other place where manufacturing takes place. [from 17th c.]
  • floor In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  • plant (botany) 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.
  • plant (botany) 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.
  • sole (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  • sole The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  • storey A floor or level of a building or ship.

facility — full definition

  1. noun A building, room or piece of equipment set up and used for a particular activity or service.
  2. noun A service, feature or amenity provided for people to use, often one of several offered together.
  3. noun A natural ability to do something easily and well.

factory — full definition

  1. noun A building where goods are manufactured, usually on a large scale using machinery.
  2. adj In the original condition as supplied by the manufacturer; not modified.

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