unplanted

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Word Origin & History

Old English plante "young tree or shrub, herb newly planted," from Latin planta "sprout, shoot, cutting" (source of Spanish planta, French plante), perhaps from *plantare "to drive in with the feet, push into the ground with the feet," from planta "sole of the foot," from nasalized form of PIE *plat- "to spread, flat" (see place (n.)).

Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is first recorded 1550s. Most extended usages are from the verb, on the notion of "something planted;" e.g. "construction for an industrial process," 1789, at first with reference to the set-up of machinery, later also the building; also slang meaning "a spy" (1812). Many of these follow similar developments in the French form of the word. German Pflanz, Irish cland, Welsh plant are from Latin.

Example Sentences for unplanted

All that are unplanted and offering to grow, should be put in pots forthwith.

The young shoots, said I, must not be left to lie untended and unplanted.

All unplanted seed potatoes should be destroyed, as the corrosive sublimate is highly poisonous.

Her first glimpse of the unplanted piece had greatly discouraged her, for it seemed dreadfully wide and long.

But the unplanted rows were rapidly growing fewer and fewer now, and the descending disk gave her little worry.

At my left was a cleared field, unplanted as yet, and in the middle of the field a dwelling with outhouses.

And so much of America and other parts of the world would not have been yet uninhabited, unplanted, or undiscovered.

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