Talk:plant

If the multiple etymology scheme (boooo) is going to be used for this article, the nesting needs to be corrected. --Connel MacKenzie 05:49, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

A tree is also a plant. GerardM 17:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The definitions were changed by someone trying to combine definitions that were not combinable. The are, in fact, four distinct definitions of "plant" that are used in biology (which I had put in), but have been collapsed into three definitions with changes to the meanings. A revert would fix this. --EncycloPetey 01:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Replaced "large piece of machinery" definition.

I have replaced the definition "A large piece of machinery, such as used in earthmoving or road construction". My family owned this machinary when I was younger, and it was listed in the phone book as "plant hire". I also pass a lot of contruction on my way to work, and it is signposted "plant crossing" etc.--Dmol 22:11, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

What you have done is to delete a valid definition found in most major dictionaries and replace it with one that has no support at all. Please do not delete valid definitions or you will be blocked. --EncycloPetey 22:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

My last edit DID NOT replace a valid definition as you put it. My last edit added another definition that I have used all my life and is easily verifiable. Please leave it, or if you feel it is still not valid, put it in RFV. There is no doubt in my mind that it would pass.--Dmol 23:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Here is your last edit [1]. You removed a definition. I pointed this out on your talk page and here, yet you persist in deleting content. Please do not do that again. --EncycloPetey 23:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

There is no definition for Power Plant

"Plant" could mean "power plant", but there does not appear to be a definition for this. There is no translation item for it either. There seems to be one for "factory", but a factory is not the same thing as a power plant! DrZygote214 (talk) 09:22, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

• Did you think of looking at power plant? SemperBlotto (talk) 10:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Encyclopedic??

The "Usage" section of this article looks a little encyclopedic in that it talks about changes in what living things are considered plants. Any thoughts here?? Georgia guy (talk) 01:45, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

"Usage notes" sections are intended to talk about the usage of the word, i.e. how the word has been used over time (if that somehow can't be expressed within the list of senses). As far as I can see this is a pretty legitimate usage of the section. What do you object to? Equinox ◑ 01:56, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November 2022–January 2023

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plant

Rfv-sense "(vulgar and obscure) Someone that trolls others by using violence on them." Tempted to delete it as obvious tosh, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt (albeit I doubt someone else would, and I won't oppose speedying it). — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 20:54, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

• I tried searching for various combinations of "plant(s)", "trolling" / "troll", and "violence" / "violent" on Google, Google Books, and Twitter, and came away empty-handed. The closest I found were examples like this and this, but that's obviously just using plant along the lines of sense 7 "Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation". Sense 8 is also similar: "A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.". It's possible that the user who added the definition had these meanings in mind, but without knowing the context in which they encountered the word I can't say for sure.
• Not mentioned within the first five pages of Urban Dictionary for plant. There are other derogatory definitions on UD, but they mostly amount to variations on sense 7. The only senses explicitly related to violence on UD are for a verb sense of plant (that we don't have): [2], [3]. 98.170.164.88 22:39, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

  I suspect senses 7–8 are what whoever added this (mis)understood as well, applied to an agent provocateur. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:38, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:00, 17 January 2023 (UTC)