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单词 plant-based
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plant-basedadj.

Brit. /ˈplɑːntˌbeɪst/, /ˈplantˌbeɪst/, U.S. /ˈplæntˌbeɪst/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plant n.1, based adj.3
Etymology: < plant n.1 + based adj.3
I. Senses relating to plant n.1 II.
1. Based, located, or established at a factory or industrial plant. Cf. plant n.1 5a.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > factory > [adjective] > within factory
in-plant1941
plant-based1960
1960 Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gaz. 1 Feb. 18/1 Three major dairymen's cooperatives..will propose that prices for bulk storage milk be established at the farm instead of at processing plants... However,..the Mutual Federation of Cooperatives has indicated it favors the present plant-based pricing system.
1976 Victoria (Texas) Advocate 12 Oct. 15 c/1 A computer of IBM design was installed with a communication adapter to accept a dial-up telephone call from a plant based terminal.
2004 CSO Nov. 62/3 If the [document destruction] company is plant-based, do a site visit; if it's a mobile business, ask to view the destruction process.
II. Senses relating to plant n.1 I.
2.
a. Derived or made from plants (or fungi or algae).
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1960 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 13 May a12/4 Interior Designer Everett Brown..hangs old bells over a plant based screen to create a focus wall in the sketch.
1976 Chem. Week (Nexis) 18 Feb. Pharmaceuticals derived from bark, roots, natural resins, leaves and blood; plant-based paint pigments and glass.
1991 P. P. Principe in O. Akerele et al. Conservation Medicinal Plants vi. 99 The over-the-counter market for laxatives in the United States in 1980 was $331 million, half of which can be attributed to plant-based products.
2000 Independent 23 Mar. ii. 8/1 The trial will use natural progesterone, which is derived from diosgenin, a plant-based extract found in the Mexican wild yam.
b. spec. Designating food or drink consisting of or derived from plants (or fungi); (in later use) esp. designating such food or drink consumed in preference to meat or animal products; vegan; vegetarian. Also of a diet: consisting exclusively or principally of such food.Although ‘plant-based’ is now often used synonymously with ‘vegetarian’ or (now especially) ‘vegan’, it is also used with reference to increased consumption of plants without the exclusion of animal products.
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1971 Fund. Nucl. Energy Res. 1970 (U.S. Atomic Energy Comm.) 137 Other situations such as diets that are largely plant based would require special consideration.
1976 BioSci. Apr. 255 The proportion of plant-based meat substitutes and extenders is likely to increase.
1991 M. J. Nicholl Amazing Micro Diet (rev. ed.) i. 9 A plant-based eating plan is more likely to promote good health and less obesity.
2019 Financial Times 9 Sept. 22 Non-dairy alternatives are already the biggest category of plant-based alternatives.
3. Having plants as an underlying basis or object.
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1963 Amer. Biol. Teacher 25 454/1 (advt.) The plant based herbivore-carnivore food chains are featured.
1989 D. W. Grimes & D. A. Goldhamer in R. L. Snyder Irrigation Scheduling iii. 19/1 The primary advantage of plant-based measurement for irrigation scheduling is that plant growth relates directly to plant water status.
1999 B. Glickman in H. Coward & P. Ratanakul Cross-Cultural Dialogue Health Care Ethics xv. 251 Many pharmaceutical companies only devote a small portion of their drug research budget to plant based research.
2015 Missouri Bot. Garden Bull. 104 8 You may be interested in learning more about the Garden's Therapeutic Horticulture program and how plants and plant-based activities are used to improve the body, mind, and spirit.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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