Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Concrete
(a.) United in growth |
Concrete
(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object |
Concrete
(a.) Applied to a specific object |
Concrete
(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. |
Concrete
(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures. |
Concrete
(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists |
Concrete
(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. |
Concrete
(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. |
Concrete
(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. |
Concrete
(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement. |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Flax-plant
(n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Ice plant
() A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic |
Plant
(n.) A vegetable |
Plant
(n.) A bush, or young tree |
Plant
(n.) The sole of the foot. |
Plant
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business |
Plant
(n.) A plan |
Plant
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
Plant
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. |
Plant
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth |
Plant
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. |
Plant
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants |
Plant
(n.) To engender |
Plant
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population |
Plant
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of |
Plant
(n.) To set firmly |
Plant
(n.) To set up |
Plant
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting. |
Plant-cane
(n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. |
Plant-eating
(a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants |
Ready
(superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience |
Ready
(superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use |
Ready
(superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition |
Ready
(superl.) Not slow or hesitating |
Ready
(superl.) Offering itself at once |
Ready
(superl.) On the point |
Ready
(superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. |
Ready
(adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action |
Ready
(n.) Ready money |
Ready
(v. t.) To dispose in order. |
Ready-made
(a.) Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need |
Ready-witted
(a.) Having ready wit. |
Water plant
() A plant that grows in water |
Wind-plant
(n.) A windflower. |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
leaf bug
plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug
four-lined leaf bug
Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug
Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse
louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid
woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse
psylla
psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper
planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
| assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
| bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
concrete mixer
cement mixer | a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete |
| electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
packinghouse
packing plant | a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
| periwinkle plant derivative | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
power station
power plant
powerhouse | an electrical generating station |
| ready-made | a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase, their apartment was furnished with ready-mades |
| ready-to-wear | ready-made clothing, she couldn't find anything in ready-to-wear that she liked |
| recycling plant | a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials |
sewage disposal plant
disposal plant | a plant for disposing of sewage |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| plant | something planted secretly for discovery by another, the police used a plant to trick the thieves, he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant |
concretism
concrete representation | a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms |
reckoner
ready reckoner | a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation |
| ready-mix | a commercial preparation containing most of the ingredients for a dish |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
plant department
building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
| concrete jungle | an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant |
botanist
phytologist
plant scientist | a biologist specializing in the study of plants |
| plant | an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience |
Plantae
kingdom Plantae
plant kingdom | (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants |
| plant cell | a cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant |
| non-flowering plant | a plant that does not bear flowers |
| plant order | the order of plants |
| pot plant | a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors) |
bryophyte
nonvascular plant | any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta |
pteridophyte
nonflowering plant | plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores |
spermatophyte
phanerogam
seed plant | plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores |
angiosperm
flowering plant | plants having seeds in a closed ovary |
monocarp
monocarpic plant
monocarpous plant | a plant that bears fruit once and dies |
| plant family | a family of plants |
| plant genus | a genus of plants |
legume
leguminous plant | an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae |
| sensitive plant Mimosa sensitiva | semilimbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant
live-and-die
humble plant
action plant
Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |