Plural of plant
regular plural
The plural of plant is plants.
Forms of plant
| Singular | plant /plɑːnt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | plants /plɑːnts/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Plants in a sentence
- The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 217
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.From the entry disease
- The scientist studied the acclimatization of plants introduced into new environments.From the entry acclimatization
- Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.From the entry vessel
Meaning of plant
- noun An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- noun An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.
- noun Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
Questions about the plural of plant
- What is the plural of plant?
- The plural of plant is plants.
- Is plant countable?
- Plant is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plant (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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