PLANT Copy link • PLANT 1. s. planta; by circumlocution quod ita ortum est e terra, ut stirpibus suis nitatur (Cic., Tusc., 5, 13, 37): to set a plant, plantam ponere: to take up a plant, eximere plantam; explantare aliquid: to remove a plant, plantam transferre. 2. v. PROP., plantis serere; serere (where the context determines the sense): ponere; deponere (☞ plantare, for serere, is not classical): to plant a place, conserere; obserere; (with oaks) locum quercu arbustare. Figuratively, figere; collocare: to plant a standard, signum proponere: infigere; vexillum proponere: to plant cannon, *tormenta disponere; upon the walls, in muris or per muros. To settle (a colony), coloniam in aliquo loco constituere, collocare: to plant colonies, colonias condere.