Definition of plant

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Plant (n.) 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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Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden..
Abstractitious :: Abstractitious (a.) Obtained from plants by distillation.
Succussation :: Succus (n.) The expressed juice of a plant, for medicinal use..
Vanilla :: Vanilla (n.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America..
Boll :: Boll (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form..
Digitigrade :: Digitigrade (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
Absinthium :: Absinthium (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood..
Coma :: Coma (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds..
Range :: Range (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Vegetation :: Vegetation (n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation..
Pseudo-china :: Pseudo-china (n.) The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America..
Tiliaceous :: Tiliaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute..
Mucivore :: Mucivore (n.) An insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora..
Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses..
Stigmata :: Stigmaria (n.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Floriculture :: Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.
Orthospermous :: Orthospermous (a.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous..
Perdifoil :: Perdifoil (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.
Florist :: Florist (n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants..
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