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Plant of the Borage family.

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  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • PLANTIGRADE
    Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • 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.
  • PLANTED
    Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
  • PLANTAIN
    A treelike perennial herb of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. 2. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy,
  • PLANTICLE
    A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.
  • BORAGEWORT
    Plant of the Borage family.
  • PLANTAL
    Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. Dr. H. More.
  • PLANTLET
    A little plant.
  • PLANT-EATING
    Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
  • PLANTAGE
    A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. .
  • BORAGE
    A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago , which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic. (more info) borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. ), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair
  • PLANTAR
    Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
  • PLANTING
    The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. (more info) 1. 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
  • PLANTER
    1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • SUPPLANT
    heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
  • LAMINIPLANTAR
    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.
  • EGGPLANT
    A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
  • DEPLANT
    To take up ; to transplant.
  • FLAX-PLANT
    A plant in new Zealand , 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.
  • PIEPLANT
    A plant the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
  • REPLANT
    To plant again.
  • DISPLANT
    Etym: 1. To remove ; to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl. 2. To strip of what is planted
  • CONTEMPLANT
    Given to contemplation; meditative. Coleridge.

 

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