A living thing rooted where it grows, making its own food from light. Also to set something into the ground for later.
Latin planta (a sprout, cutting), from plantare (to fix in the ground), related to planta (the sole of the foot), from the treading that set a cutting into the earth; a living thing rooted by being pressed into the ground.
A living thing rooted where it grows, making its own food from light — or, as a verb, the setting of something into the ground to be found later.