PLANTING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow

Example:

the planting of corn is hard work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "planting"):

insemination (the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.))

Derivation:

plant (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)

Meaning:

The act of fixing firmly in place

Example:

he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Derivation:

plant (fix or set securely or deeply)

Meaning:

A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area

Example:

the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

-ing form of the verb plant