Air plant () A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
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 |
Resistant (a.) Making resistance |
Resistant (n.) One who, or that which, resists. |
Tread (v. i.) To set the foot |
Tread (v. i.) To walk or go |
Tread (v. i.) To copulate |
Tread (v. t.) To step or walk on. |
Tread (v. t.) To beat or press with the feet |
Tread (v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. |
Tread (v. t.) To crush under the foot |
Tread (v. t.) To copulate with |
Tread (n.) A step or stepping |
Tread (n.) Manner or style of stepping |
Tread (n.) Way |
Tread (n.) The act of copulation in birds. |
Tread (n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed. |
Tread (n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet. |
Tread (n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. |
Tread (n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear. |
Tread (n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg |
Tread (n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3. |
Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle. |
Water plant () A plant that grows in water |
Wind-plant (n.) A windflower. |