Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Alfa grass
(n.) A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa |
Arrow grass
(n.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads. |
Bent grass
() Same as Bent, a kind of grass. |
Bermuda grass
() A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries |
Blue-eyed grass
() a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. |
Blue grass
() A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils |
Brome grass
() A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat. |
Bunch grass
() A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass. |
Couch grass
() See Quitch grass. |
Dog's-tail grass
(n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait |
Doob grass
() A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. |
Doub grass
() Doob grass. |
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. |
Gama grass
() A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive |
Grama grass
() The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya. |
Gramineous
(a.) Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2. |
Grass
(n.) Popularly: Herbage |
Grass
(n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. |
Grass
(n.) The season of fresh grass |
Grass
(n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory. |
Grass
(v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf. |
Grass
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. |
Grass
(v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground |
Grass
(v. i.) To produce grass. |
Grass-green
(a.) Green with grass. |
Grass-green
(a.) Of the color of grass |
Grass-grown
(a.) Overgrown with grass |
Grass tree
() An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. |
Grass tree
() A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). |
Guatemala grass
() See Teosinte. |
Hair grass
() A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hard grass
() A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived. |
Hariali grass
() The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon |
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 |
Johnson grass
() A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet. |
Lyme grass
() A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius. |
Melic grass
() A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance. |
Para grass
() A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil. |
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
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 |
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus globigii
grass bacillus
hay bacillus | a species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter, some strains produce antibiotics |
vesper sparrow
grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
| grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
grass frog
Rana temporaria | a common semiterrestrial European frog |
| green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
garter snake
grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
grass snake
ring snake ringed snake
Natrix natrix | harmless European snake with a bright yellow collar, common in England |
viperine grass snake
Natrix maura | a small harmless grass snake |
budgerigar
budgereegah
budgerygah
budgie
grass parakeet
lovebird shell parakeet
Melopsittacus undulatus | small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors |
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 |
| 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 |
| grass skirt | a skirt made of long blades of grass |
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 |
pot grass
green goddess
dope
weed
gage sess
sens
smoke skunk
locoweed
Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
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 |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
eatage
forage
pasture
pasturage
grass | bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle |
| grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) |
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 |
divorcee
grass widow | a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband |
grass widower
divorced man | a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife |
| plant | an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience |
snake
snake in the grass | a deceitful or treacherous person |
supergrass
grass | a police informer who implicates many people |
Grass
Gunter Grass
Gunter Wilhelm Grass | German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born ) |
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 |