Plant vs. Bush — What's the Difference?

Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.

A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country

A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place

A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur

A person placed in a group as a spy or informer

A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.

A shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.

A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow

Spread out into a thick clump

Set or place in a particular position

A low shrub with many branches.

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae.

A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.

A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.

Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.

Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.

Land remote from settlement

A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory

A shaggy mass, as of hair.

The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution

Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.

A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.

A fox's tail.

A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.

(Archaic) A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.

A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.

(Obsolete) A tavern.

A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.

To grow or branch out like a bush.

(Slang) A scheming trick; a swindle.

To extend in a bushy growth.

To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.

To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.

To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow

To furnish or line with a bushing.

To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation

(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate

To stock with spawn or fish.

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

To introduce (an animal) into an area.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

To place or fix in a certain position

(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

To deliver (a punch or blow).

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.

To fix firmly in the mind; implant

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

To establish; found

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior

(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.

To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public

(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

To conceal; hide

(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

To become bushy (often used with up).

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

(control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

To place in the ground.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

To furnish or supply with plants.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

To set up; to install; to instate.

A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

A large wilderness area

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

The sole of the foot.

43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Hair growing in the pubic area

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

Provide with a bushing

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

Not of the highest quality or sophistication

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

To set up; to install; to instate.

To perform the act of planting.

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor;

A living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Something planted secretly for discovery by another;

An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Put or set (seeds or seedlings) 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;