A surname.

(business) Initialism of Port of London Authority. / (military) Initialism of People’s Liberation Army (“the army of the People’s Republic of China”).

(electronics, countable) Initialism of programmable logic array. / (organic chemistry) Initialism of polylactic acid.

plural of Pla

plural of PLA

A Thai fish sauce.

A traditional Thai seasoning made by fermenting fish with rice bran or roasted rice powder and salt for a long period.

(now historical or astrology) Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

(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.

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