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 |
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 / 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 |