means Living organisms that typically make their own food from sunlight through photosynthesis, usually rooted in one place — including trees, flowers, grasses, ferns, and mosses.

from From Latin 'planta,' meaning a sprout, shoot, or cutting — the bit you'd push into the soil. The same root gives us 'plant' as a verb, since to plant was literally to press a shoot into the ground (some link it to 'planta,' the sole of the foot, as if you tamped the earth down with your heel). It traveled through Old English 'plante' and Old French before settling into the broad green sense we use today.