Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Cobra
(n.) See Copra. |
Cobra
(n.) The cobra de capello. |
Cobra de capello
() The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja -- |
Day lily
() A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers. |
Day lily
() A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers. |
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. |
Guernsey lily
() A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey. |
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 |
Jacobaean lily
() A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. |
Lily
(n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary. |
Lily
(n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc. |
Lily
(n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north |
Lily-handed
(a.) Having white, delicate hands. |
Lily-livered
(a.) White-livered |
Mariposa lily
() One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California. |
Pitcher
(n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc. |
Pitcher
(n.) A sort of crowbar for digging. |
Pitcher
(n.) A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle |
Pitcher
(n.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. |
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 |
Sea lily
() A crinoid. |
Water lily
() A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea. |
Water pitcher
() A pitcher for water. |
Water pitcher
() One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type. |
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 |
pitcher
mound | the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit, he has played every position except pitcher, they have a southpaw on the mound |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
California condor
Gymnogyps californianus | North American condor, chiefly dull black, almost extinct |
California newt
Taricha torosa | newt that is similar to Taricha granulosa in characteristics and habitat |
California whipsnake
striped racer
Masticophis lateralis | a whipsnake of scrublands and rocky hillsides |
| cobra | venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood |
Indian cobra
Naja naja | a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia |
asp Egyptian cobra
Naja haje | cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death |
black-necked cobra
spitting cobra
Naja nigricollis | aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa, rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness |
hamadryad
king cobra
Ophiophagus hannah
Naja hannah | large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, the largest venomous snake, sometimes placed in genus Naja |
California quail
Lofortyx californicus | plump chunky bird of coastal California and Oregon |
California sea lion
Zalophus californianus
Zalophus californicus | often trained as a show animal |
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 |
| sea lily | crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface |
palometa
California pompano
Palometa simillima | smaller than Florida pompano, common in West Indies |
| 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 |
cream pitcher
creamer | a small pitcher for serving cream |
| 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 |
mound hill
pitcher's mound | (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands |
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 |
pitcher
ewer | an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University of California at Berkeley | a university in Berkeley, California |
| 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 |
California Personality Inventory
CPI | a selfeport personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI, consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc. |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
| California wine | any of various wines produced in California |
plant department
building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
California
Golden State
CA
Calif. | a state in the western United States on the Pacific, the rd largest state, known for earthquakes |
Sacramento
capital of California | a city in north central California miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River, capital of California |
Gulf of California
Sea of Cortes | a gulf to the west of the mainland of Mexico |
Lower California
Baja California | a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico |
botanist
phytologist
plant scientist | a biologist specializing in the study of plants |