How to pronounce plant

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What plant means

noun

Most people know plant in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A helper hidden in an audience to make a trick work

In a sentence: The magician's plant sat in the third row and pretended to be a stranger.

Where it comes from: It comes from the verb plant, to set something in place, the way you set a seed in the ground. So it is the same word as a green growing plant.

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