plant vs annual

annual vs plant

plant and annual both are nouns.

plant is not an adjective while annual is an adjective.

plant is a verb but annual is not a verb.

As nouns, annual is a hyponym of plant; that is, annual is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plant:

plant: (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
annual: (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

Other hyponyms of plant include microflora, crop, endemic, holophyte, non-flowering plant, plantlet, wilding, ornamental, pot plant, acrogen, apomict, aquatic, cryptogam, biennial, perennial, escape, hygrophyte, neophyte, embryo, monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant, sporophyte, gametophyte, houseplant, garden plant, vascular plant, tracheophyte, poisonous plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant, aerophyte, air plant, rock plant, autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism, myrmecophyte, phytoplankton.

plant (noun)	annual (noun)
buildings for carrying on industrial labor	(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion	a reference book that is published regularly once every year
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
something planted secretly for discovery by another

plant (adjective)	annual (adjective)
	completing its life cycle within a year
	occurring or payable every year

plant (verb)	annual (verb)
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
fix or set securely or deeply
set up or lay the groundwork for
place into a river
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
put firmly in the mind

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