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Schweinfurth) this plant was already well known as a plant of cultivation; in a wild state it is not known (De Candolle, "Originel des Plantes cultivées").

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  1. noun Botany Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.
  2. noun Botany A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.
  3. noun A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory.
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  • The aloe vera plant is a high-sulfur member of the garlic family. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • A tour of the plant was also provided, giving visiting analysts a rare peak behind the scenes of an operating nuclear plant as well as the site for the new units. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Riverton trustee Tom Rader said there hasn't been enough information, such as how fast the plant will be able to replenish itself, for he and other trustees to fully support Springfield's use of the pit. —  The State Journal-Register Home RSS
  • Considering the nation's high unemployment rate, the plant will be an asset to the city of Quitman putting the unemployed to work and ultimately putting money back into the city.
  • This plant is the global production base for Suzuki's fifth strategic model, the Alto, which will be launched in the United Kingdom in March with emissions of just 103g / km and low fuel consumption of 62.8 miles per gallon on the combined cycle. —  Reliable Plant Magazine
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English plante, from Old English and Old French, both from Latin planta, sprout, seedling; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English plante, plaunte (partly from Old French), from Anglo-Saxon plante = D. plant = MLG.plante = Old High German phlanza, flanza, planza, Middle High German G. pflanze = Icelandic planta = Swedish planta = Danish plante = Old French (and F.) plante = Provencal Spanish Portuguese planta = Italian pitnta, a plant, from Latin planta, a sprout, shoot, twig, sucker, graft, scion, slip, cutting, a young tree that may be transplanted, a set, hence in general a plant; prob. orig. a spreading sucker (cf. planta, the sole of the foot: see plant); literally something flat or spreading,' from √ plat = Greek from πλατύς broad: see plat, plate. In the later senses (defs. 5-10) the noun is from the verb. Cf. clan.
  2. from Middle English planten, plaunten (partly from Old French), from Anglo-Saxon plantian (ā-plantian, geplantian) = Dutch planten = Middle Low German planten = Old High German phlanzōn, flanzōn, Middle High German G. pflanzen = Icelandic planta = Swedish planta = Danish plante = Old French (and F.) planter = Provencal Spanish Portuguese plantar = Italian piantare, from Latin plantare, set, plant, transplant, from planta, a sprout, shoot, scion, plant: see plant, n.
  3. from French plante = Sp.Portuguese planta = It.pianta, from Latinplanta, the sole of the foot: see plant.
 

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