Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Artificial
(a.) Made or contrived by art |
Artificial
(a.) Feigned |
Artificial
(a.) Artful |
Artificial
(a.) Cultivated |
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. |
Generating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generate |
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 |
Snow
(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. |
Snow
(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. |
Snow
(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry |
Snow
(v. i.) To fall in or as snow |
Snow
(v. t.) To scatter like snow |
Snow-blind
(a.) Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. |
Snow-bound
(a.) Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. |
Snow-broth
(n.) Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted |
Snow-capped
(a.) Having the top capped or covered with snow |
Snow-white
(a.) White as snow |
Water plant
() A plant that grows in water |
Wind-plant
(n.) A windflower. |