Clues for the word "PLANT"
We've had 119 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 211 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of plant
- n. - A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
- n. - A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- n. - The sole of the foot.
- n. - The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
- n. - A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
- n. - An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- n. - A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- n. - To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
- n. - To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
- n. - To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
- n. - To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- n. - To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
- n. - To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
- n. - To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
- n. - To set up; to install; to instate.
- v. i. - To perform the act of planting.
Referring Clues
- Not legitimate evidence
- Infiltrator, perhaps
- Factory
- 4-Down, for one
- Many a housewarming gift
- Mole, maybe
- Annual, e.g.
- Mole
- Undercover agent
- Carnival shill, e.g.
- Audience shill
- Moss or fern, for example
- Nursery purchase
- Shill
- Botanist's interest
- Led Zeppelin singer Robert
- Venus flytrap, e.g.
- Industrial building
- Botanist's study
- What Audrey II is, in "Little Shop of Horrors"
- Spy
- Grower in a pot
- Shrub or bush
- Oxygen producer
- Flower or weed
- Mole, for example
- Assembly-line setting
- Audience member who's really a performer
- Something you may do in the spring
- Place in the ground
- Bush, for one
- One that shoots
- Assembly line setting
- Manufacturing site
- Mole, e.g.
- Place secretly
- Bit of flora
- Manufacturing center
- Nursery buy
- Magician's secret cohort
- Chorophyll maker
- Chlorophyll maker
- Garden item
- Nursery item
- Part of the flora
- Greenhouse purchase
- Terrarium item
- Herb or tree
- Put in the ground
- Botanical specimen
- Magician's audience confederate
- Page partner
- Sow
- Many a double agent
- Add to the garden
- Police ploy
- Magician's assistant in an audience, say
- Garden growth
- Start a garden
- -
- Greenhouse growth
- Housewarming gift, maybe
- Magician's volunteer, often
- Deliver, as a big kiss
- Place, as false evidence
- Agent of entrapment
- Word after power or rubber
- Flower or shrub
- Seaweed, e.g.
- Manufacturing facility
- Industrial spy
- Botanist's specimen
- Any flower or cactus, e.g.
- Common Easter gift
- Windowsill cactus, for example
- Insider of a sort
- Covert agent
- Hothouse item
- Factory to design aircraft's tail
- Organism
- Secret audience member
- Verdant organism
- Shrub - factory
- Factory - bit of vegetation
- Banana split by Monsieur Escoffier, le premier pour préparer une bombe?
- Growth for production?
- Member of vegetable kingdom
- Growing organism - industrial buildings
- Bush's twentieth strategy?
- Place down solidly
- Design tin-opener factory
- Growing buildings
- Design end product using machines
- Faked evidence of factory growth
- Factory scheme is on time
- Sow, as seeds
- Be a farmer
- Purposely placed evidence
- Machinery put in the ground
- Embedded spy
- Herbarium specimen
- Greenhouse buy
- Aspidistra on the snooker table?
- Bush
- Start to grow
- Mill
- Confederate in an audience
- Seed, one day
- "Potted" windowsill decor
- Aloe or cactus
- Machinery
- Photosynthesis performer
- Industrial site
- Seedling
- Palm tree or rosebush
- ___-based (like many options in a vegan restaurant)
- Shrub
- Cactus or cedar
- Audience member who might be in on the trick
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - November 29, 2025
- LA Times - October 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 13, 2025
- Daily American - September 26, 2025
- Daily American - July 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 08, 2025
- Daily American - May 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2025
- New York Times - February 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 07, 2025
- Daily American - November 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2024
- USA Today - August 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2024
- USA Today - June 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2024
- Mirror Mini - January 12, 2024
- USA Today - November 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 26, 2023
- Daily American - September 26, 2023
- New York Times - August 06, 2023
- Daily American - July 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 28, 2023
- Daily American - May 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 13, 2023
- And in 181 more crossword puzzles...