planting

Pluralplantings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of plant. Use this form for the action happening now or as the name of the activity.

   She is planting tomatoes in the backyard.

   Planting trees along the road helps stop the soil from washing away.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The job of putting a young plant into the soil so it can grow.

   Like tucking a seed into bed so it can start to grow.

   The planting of the new orchard took the whole family a weekend.

   Careful planting in straight rows makes the field easier to harvest.

   Similarsowing, seeding

   Oppositeharvesting, reaping

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A young plant or cutting that has just been put into the ground.

   Like a tiny new tree that still needs help to survive.

   The plantings along the path wilted in the afternoon heat.

   Each planting needs water every day until its roots take hold.

   Similarseedling, transplant, cutting

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A large area of land where people grow crops or trees.

   Her family has owned a tea planting in the hills for a hundred years.

   The owner lived in a big house at the edge of the planting, with fields of sugarcane all around it.

   Similarplantation, estate, farm

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