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 |
insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
dipterous insect two-winged insects dipteran dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
hymenopterous insect hymenopteran hymenopteron hymenopter | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
orthopterous insect orthopteron orthopteran | any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts |
phasmid phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants, walking sticks and leaf insects |
walking stick walkingstick stick insect | any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
walking leaf leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
dictyopterous insect | cockroaches and mantids |
hemipterous insect bug hemipteran hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base, usually show incomplete metamorphosis |
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 |
heteropterous insect | true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips |
homopterous insect homopteran | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
wax insect | any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance |
cochineal insect cochineal Dactylopius coccus | Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti, the source of a red dye |
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 |
spittle insect spittlebug | small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete |
plant hopper planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
psocopterous insect | small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs |
neuropteron neuropteran neuropterous insect | insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
trichopterous insect trichopteran trichopteron | caddis fly |
thysanuran insect thysanuron | primitive wingless insects: bristletail |
thysanopter thysanopteron thysanopterous insect | an insect of the order Thysanoptera |
lepidopterous insect lepidopteron lepidopteran | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
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 |
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 |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
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 |
toxicology | the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons |
oyster plant vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
plant department building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |