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 |
Indicator
(n.) One who, or that which, shows or points out |
Indicator
(n.) A pressure gauge |
Indicator
(n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below). |
Indicator
(n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc. |
Indicator
(n.) The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer. |
Indicator
(n.) Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey. |
Indicator
(n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis. |
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 |
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 |
artificial horizon
gyro horizon
flight indicator | a navigational instrument based on a gyroscope, it artificially provides a simulated horizon for the pilot |
| 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 |
fuel gauge
fuel indicator | an indicator of the amount of fuel remaining in a vehicle |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
| indicator | a device for showing the operating condition of some system |
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 |
pilot light
pilot lamp
indicator lamp | indicator consisting of a light to indicate whether power is on or a motor is in operation |
| 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 |
speedometer
speed indicator | a meter fixed to a vehicle that measures and displays its speed |
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 |
theory of indicators
Ostwald's theory of indicators | (chemistry) the theory that all indicators are either weak acids or weak bases in which the color of the ionized form is different from the color before dissociation |
index index number
indicant
indicator | a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts, can reveal relative changes as a function of time |
| leading indicator | one of indicators for different sections of the economy, used by the Department of Commerce to predict economic trends in the near future |
| indicator | a signal for attracting attention |
blinker
turn signal
turn indicator
trafficator | a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn |
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 |