While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
B. Trumbull.
Plant"-cane` (?), n. A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth
from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of
inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
Plant"-eat`ing (?), a. Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a
plant-eating beetle.
Plant"ed (?), a. (Joinery) Fixed in place, as a projecting member
wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
Plant"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a
planterof corn; a machine planter.
2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a
coffee planter.
3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first
planters in Virginia.
Plant"er*ship, n. The occupation or position of a planter, or the
management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
Plant"i*cle (?), n. [Dim. of Plant.] A young plant, or plant in embryo.
E. Darwin.
||Plan`ti*gra"da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) A subdivision of Carnivora
||having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied
||species.
Plan"ti*grade (?), a. [L. planta sole of the foot + gradi to walk: cf.
F. plantigrade.] (Zoˆl.) (a) Walking on the sole of the foot;
pertaining to the plantigrades. (b) Having the foot so formed that the
heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
Plan"ti*grade, n. (Zoˆl.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or
steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
Plant"ing (?), n. 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for
propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations,
as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.