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Plant |
A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. |
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Plant |
A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. |
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Plant |
The sole of the foot. |
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Plant |
The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad. |
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Plant |
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. |
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Air plant |
A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte. |
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Plant-cane |
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. |
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Plant-eating |
Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. |
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Water plant |
A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. |
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Wind-plant |
A windflower. |
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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; -- called also Holy Spirit plant. |
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Flax-plant |
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. |
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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; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. |
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