Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Bulk
(n.) Magnitude of material substance |
Bulk
(n.) The main mass or body |
Bulk
(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed. |
Bulk
(n.) The body. |
Bulk
(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent |
Bulk
(v.) A projecting part of a building. |
Cement
(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc. |
Cement
(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water. |
Cement
(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2. |
Cement
(n.) Bond of union |
Cement
(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth |
Cement
(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. |
Cement
(n.) To unite firmly or closely. |
Cement
(n.) To overlay or coat with cement |
Cement
(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united |
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 |
Portland cement
() A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water. |
Silo
(n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage. |
Water cement
() Hydraulic cement. |
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 |
| recycling plant | a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials |
sewage disposal plant
disposal plant | a plant for disposing of sewage |
| silo | a cylindrical tower used for storing silage |
| silo | military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| bulk | the property possessed by a large mass |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
majority
bulk | the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts, the main part, the majority of his customers prefer it, the bulk of the work is finished |
cementum
cement | a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth |
| 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 |
| bulk mail | mail consisting of large numbers of identical items (circulars or advertisements) sent to individual addresses at less than stlass rates and paid for in one lot |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
plant department
building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
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 |