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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

植物

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shokubutsu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plant/plænt/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女は部屋に多くの観葉植物を置いています。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A living organism of the kind typified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site by absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots.

    "She carefully watered the potted plant on the windowsill."
As verb
  1. 1

    To place (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

    "We plan to plant tomatoes in the backyard garden this spring."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin planta, meaning 'sole of the foot' (from the action of driving something into the ground with the foot). Over time, the meaning shifted in Late Latin to denote a shoot or cutting being planted, subsequently entering Old English as both a noun and a verb.

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