plant life

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plant life - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotionflora, plantorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlybotanical medicine, herbal therapy, phytotherapy - the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)microorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic sizephytoplankton - photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algaeparasite - 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 hostcoca - dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effectfugaciousness, fugacity - the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plantscirculation - free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant); "ocean circulation is an important part of global climate"; "a fan aids air circulation"botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"hood, cap - a protective covering that is part of a plantkingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plantsmicroflora - microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microfloracrop - a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scaleendemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"holophyte - an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesisnon-flowering plant - a plant that does not bear flowersplantlet - a young plant or a small plantwilding - a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)ornamental - any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental valuepot 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 stemapomict - a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixisaquatic - a plant that lives in or on watercryptogam - formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungiannual - (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a yearbiennial - (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 seasonperennial - (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or moreescape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wildhygrophyte - a plant that grows in a moist habitatneophyte - a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previouslyembryo - (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegoniummonocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant - a plant that bears fruit once and diessporophyte - the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generationsgametophyte - the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generationshouseplant - any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposesgarden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb gardentracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiospermsplant part, plant structure - any part of a plant or funguspoisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organismaerophyte, 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 itrock plant - plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock gardenautophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism - plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substancessquamule - a minute scalemyrmecophyte - plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with itnitrification - the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)

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