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- English Word Plant-eating Definition Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
- English Word Plantable Definition Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
- English Word Plantage Definition A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
- English Word Plantain Definition A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
- English Word Plantain Definition The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
- English Word Plantain Definition Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
- English Word Plantal Definition Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
- English Word Plantar Definition Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
- English Word Plantation Definition The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
- English Word Plantation Definition The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
- English Word Plantation Definition An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
- English Word Planted Definition of Plant
- English Word Planted Definition Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
- English Word Planter Definition One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
- English Word Planter Definition One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
- English Word Planter Definition A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
- English Word Plantership Definition The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
- English Word Planticle Definition A young plant, or plant in embryo.
- English Word Plantigrada Definition A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
- English Word Plantigrade Definition Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
- English Word Plantigrade Definition Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
- English Word Plantigrade Definition A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
- English Word Planting Definition of Plant
- English Word Planting Definition The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.
- English Word Planting Definition That which is planted; a plantation.
- English Word Planting Definition The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.
- English Word Plantless Definition Without plants; barren of vegetation.
- English Word Plantlet Definition A little plant.
- English Word Plantocracy Definition Government by planters; planters, collectively.
- English Word Plantule Definition The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.