Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Alen/on lace
() See under Lace. |
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. |
Honiton lace
() A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures |
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 |
Lace
(n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven |
Lace
(n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords |
Lace
(n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures |
Lace
(n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. |
Lace
(v. t.) To fasten with a lace |
Lace
(v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material |
Lace
(v. t.) To beat |
Lace
(v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). |
Lace
(v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces |
Lace-bark
(n.) A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia) |
Lace-winged
(a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
Macrame lace
() A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture. |
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 |
Torchon lace
() a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread |
Valenciennes lace
() A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net. |
Water plant
() A plant that grows in water |
Wind-plant
(n.) A windflower. |
Ypres lace
() Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace. |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
lace making
tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
| 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 |
| lace bug | small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines |
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 |
Madagascar cat
ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
| 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 |
| Brussels lace | fine lace with a raised or applique design |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| 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 |
| lace | a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns |
| lace lacing | a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) |
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 |
pillow lace
bobbin lace | a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins, the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
point lace
needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
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 |
shoelace
shoe lace
shoestring
shoe string | a lace used for fastening shoes |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
Valenciennes
Valenciennes lace | a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns |
| 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 |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
plant department
building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
| Madagascar | an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa, the th largest island in the world |
Madagascar
Republic of Madagascar
Malagasy Republic | a republic on the island of Madagascar, achieved independence from France in |
Antananarivo
capital of Madagascar | the capital and largest city of Madagascar |
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 |