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plant out

British

verb

(tr, adverb) to set (a seedling that has been raised in a greenhouse, frame, or other sheltered place) to grow out in open ground

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The plant on Japan’s northern coast of Niigata is TEPCO’s only workable nuclear power plant since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami put its Fukushima Daiichi plant out of operation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

Feeding it extra nutrients to trigger new growth stresses the plant out even more.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2022

Their grazing has wiped the plant out in six of seven areas it once thrived.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2021

Avent would yank a peanut plant out of the ground to show people where the nuts came from.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2019

He began to pull a plant out of the ground.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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