{
    "term": "plant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/pl/plants.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a living thing that grows in the earth and usually has a stem, leaves and roots, especially one that is smaller than a tree or bush",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All plants need light and water."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**flowering plants**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "native/medicinal/wild plants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a tomato/potato plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's becoming more popular to **grow plants** organically."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The area is home to many rare **plant species**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the animal and plant life of the area"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Plants absorb carbon in the form of carbon dioxide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The butterfly's sole food plant is wild lupine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "food plants of rare butterflies"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Plants and trees"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["delicate", "wild", "native"],
                "verb + plant": ["cultivate", "grow", "water"],
                "plant + verb": ["develop", "grow", "flourish"],
                "plant + noun": ["roots", "growth", "life"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **nuclear power plant**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **processing/manufacturing plant**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Japanese car plants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a water treatment plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chemical/steel/coal plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a waste reprocessing plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a nuclear power plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sewage (treatment) plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an assembly plant"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["industrial", "assembly", "manufacturing"],
                "verb + plant": ["build", "manage", "run"],
                "plant + verb": ["produce something"],
                "plant + noun": ["manager"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the large machines that are used in industrial processes",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company has been investing in new plant and equipment."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "something that somebody has deliberately placed among another person’s clothes or possessions in order to make them appear guilty of a crime",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He claimed that the drugs found in his house were a plant."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a person who joins a group of criminals or enemies in order to get and secretly report information about their activities",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/plɑːnt/",
                "audio": "pl/plant/plant__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/plænt/",
                "audio": "pl/plant/plant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ (later influenced by French plante) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’."
}