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PLANTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held
Example:
a deeply planted need
Synonyms:
deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted
Classified under:
Similar:
constituted; established (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Set in the soil for growth
Classified under:
Similar:
cropped ((of land or soil) used for growing crops)
naturalised; naturalized (planted so as to give an effect of wild growth)
potbound; rootbound ((of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots)
quickset (grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground)
seeded; sown (sprinkled with seed)
self-seeded; self-sowed; self-sown (growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds)
soil-building ((of crops) planted to improve the quality of the soil)
Antonym:
unplanted (not planted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb plant
Context examples:
The researchers planted 45 hybrid corn plants representing the major types of corn — popcorn, broom corn, dent, flint and others — to look for variation in their responses to high ozone levels.
(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)
And beneath the brows, planted under his lids, was the merciless "$3.85."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The land was divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing; there was great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to shut out the blacksmith's shop.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Since the first GM crops were planted 23 years ago, no ill effects have been documented; the crops have enjoyed an unblemished and proven safety record and have expanded 113-fold from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 191.7 million hectares in 2018.
(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)
He was firmly planted on his legs; his feet struck the deck squarely and with surety; every movement of a muscle, from the heave of the shoulders to the tightening of the lips about the cigar, was decisive, and seemed to come out of a strength that was excessive and overwhelming.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow; that is for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Near the prow was planted Sir Oliver's spear, with his arms—a boar's head gules upon a field of gold.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
