plant life

Noun
  1. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion (synset 100017402)
    referred to in: botany, phytology - the branch of biology that studies plants
    associated with:
    • botanical medicine, herbal therapy, phytotherapy - the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)
    • micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size
    • parasite - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
    • coca - dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect
    • fugaciousness, fugacity - the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
    • circulation - free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant)
    • botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period
    • squamule - a minute scale
    • nitrification - the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)
    • perennation - the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant)
    • photosynthesis - synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)
    • alder blight - a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a plant louse)
    • peroxidase - any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide
    • tenderiser, tenderizer - a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender
    • propagate - cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
    • etiolate - bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
    • bruise - damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
    • cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    • accrete - grow together (of plants and organs)
    • deaden, girdle - cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
    • acid-loving - thriving in a relatively acidic environment (especially of plants requiring a pH well below 7)
    • alkaline-loving - thriving in a relatively alkaline environment; (especially of plants requiring a pH above 7)
    • apocarpous - (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses
    • syncarpous - (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels
    • sedgy - covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants)
    • floccose - (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs
    • hispid - (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles
    • pappose - (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles
    • carnivorous - (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals
    • saprophytic - (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
    • insectivorous - (of animals and plants) feeding on insects
    • blanched, etiolate, etiolated - (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
    • tender - (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
    • dicotyledonous - (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed
    • monocotyledonous - (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies
    • evergreen - (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year
    • deciduous - (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
    • campylotropous - (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk
    • orthotropous - (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex
    • anatropous, inverted - (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
    • amphitropous - (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk
    • epiphytotic - (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area
    • amentaceous, amentiferous - (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins
    • half-hardy - (of plants) requiring protection from frost
    • gregarious - (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
    • clustered - growing close together but not in dense mats
    • ungregarious - (of plants) growing together in groups that are not close together
    • caespitose, cespitose, tufted - (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts
    • leggy, tall-growing - (of plants) having tall spindly stems
    • endangered - (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction
    • threatened - (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered
    is a type of: being, organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
    subtypes:
    • phytoplankton - photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae
    • microflora - microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora
    • crop - a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
    • endemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area
    • holophyte - an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis
    • non-flowering plant - a plant that does not bear flowers
    • plantlet - a young plant or a small plant
    • wilding - a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)
    • ornamental - any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value
    • pot plant - a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors)
    • acrogen - any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
    • apomict - a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis
    • aquatic - a plant that lives in or on water
    • cryptogam - formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
    • annual - (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
    • biennial - (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season
    • perennial - (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more
    • escape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
    • hygrophyte - a plant that grows in a moist habitat
    • neophyte - a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously
    • embryo - (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
    • monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant - a plant that bears fruit once and dies
    • sporophyte - the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
    • gametophyte - the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
    • houseplant - any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes
    • garden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden
    • tracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms
    • poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism
    • aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
    • rock plant - plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden
    • autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism - plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
    • myrmecophyte - plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it
    belongs to: kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
    has:
    same as: flora, plant

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