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Plant-cane
n.
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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.
Plant-eating
a.
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Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
Planted
a.
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Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
Planter
n.
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One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
Planter
n.
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One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
Planter
n.
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A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Plantership
n.
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The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
Planticle
n.
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A young plant, or plant in embryo.
Plantigrada
n. pl.
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A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
Plantigrade
a.
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Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
Plantigrade
a.
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Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
Plantigrade
n.
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A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
Planting
n.
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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 sugar, coffee, etc.
Planting
n.
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That which is planted; a plantation.
Planting
n.
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The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.
Plantless
a.
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Without plants; barren of vegetation.
Plantlet
n.
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A little plant.
Plantocracy
n.
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Government by planters; planters, collectively.
Plantule
n.
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The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
Planulae
pl.
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of Planula
Planula
n.
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In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.
Planula
n.
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The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.
Planxty
n.
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An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.
Plaque
n.
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Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
Plash
v.
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A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
Plash
v.
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A dash of water; a splash.
Plashed
imp. & p. p.
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of Plash
Plashing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Plash
Plash
v. i.
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To dabble in water; to splash.
Plash
v. t.
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To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.