| Air plant () A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
| Cream-white (a.) As white as cream. |
| 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 |
| Naples yellow () See under Yellow. |
| 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 / flora / plant life (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| whitelash / white backlash backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
| plant closing act of shutting down operation of a plant |
| white sale a sale of household linens |
| white man's burden the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
| plant virus a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
| onion yellow-dwarf virus the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
| potato yellow-dwarf virus the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
| yellow-green algae any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
| great white shark / white shark / man-eater / man-eating shark / Carcharodon carcharias large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |