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Plural of plant

regular plural

The plural of plant is plants.

Forms of plant

Singularplant /plɑːnt/
Pluralplants /plɑːnts/
Countablecountable 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. noun Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Full definition of plant

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.

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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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