(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
(n.) The sole of the foot.
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
(3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(9) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
(12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
(13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
Thistle
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the best of the opening three as Stefan Johansen, who became a champion for the second time in sixth months after winning the Norwegian top flight with Stromsgodset, exchanged passes with Griffiths before continuing his driving run and drilling the ball into the Thistle goal.
(2) It is concluded that, of the compounds identified, solstitialin A 13-acetate and cynaropicrin have toxic potential in cell cultures, containing cells from the substantia nigra of the rat, the specificity of action to cells of the substantia nigra remains to be shown, and that a toxic action in the midbrain may contribute to the nigro-pallidal encephalomalacia, caused by the ingestion of the yellow star thistle by horses.
(3) "It may be that thistle-cutting or spraying is unnecessary this summer because the caterpillars will defoliate them for you."
(4) That’s the hardest part of our job – to know that we can’t put them where they belong.” For context, Thistle notes that there used to be 640 beds in New Hampshire for treatment.
(5) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(6) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
(7) We look forward to it, the gaffer will look forward to it, he will have a game plan and will try to get into the next round.” It was Thistle’s first defeat in seven games but their defender Danny Seaborne said they had been undone by a striker enjoying a great run of form.
(8) Thistle-tube-shaped pulps in the permanent teeth were observed in five patients.
(9) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
(10) One night in the Crown and Thistle pub in Northiam, Ajao flew into a row with a local, Piers Mott.
(11) Which is all well and good, but you’re intrigued to know what’s going on at Celtic Park, where Celtic are entertaining Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
(12) In 15 patients (13 women and two men) with cholesterol stones in the gall-bladder a special (Thistle) catheter was introduced into the gall-bladder under local anaesthesia by percutaneous transhepatic puncture.
(13) MB • Aberdeen move to within a point of Celtic after comeback at Partick Thistle • Steven Pye: when Aberdeen ruled Scottish football Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mathias Pogba moved from Crawley Town to Partick Thistle last summer but has found goals hard to come by north of the border.
(14) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
(15) At Glasgow's Thistle Hotel on Friday night a 22-piece Gaelic choir sang Highland Cathedral.
(16) Weeds elicit two levels of allergenicity, a high level by the Ragweeds and other members of the Asteraceae, and a much lower level by members of the families Amaranthaceae (Pigweed, Western Water Hemp), Chenopodiaceae (Lamb's Quarters, Kochia, and Russian Thistle), and Plantaginaceae (Plantain) in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
(17) Aberdeen moved to within one point of Premiership leaders Celtic after battling from behind to beat Partick Thistle 2-1 at Firhill.
(18) In sensitized individuals, Russian thistle floral bracts pierced the skin and stimulated an urticarial reaction.
(19) THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE The Rt Hon David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, the Earl of Home CVO, CBE.
(20) He remained 'Sir' Alec because he had been created a Knight of the Thistle in 1962.