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- adjective   Having characteristics of a plant 
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Examples
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								The long-current idea that animal tissues grow only as a sort of deposit from the blood-vessels was now discarded, and the fact of so-called plantlike growth of animal cells, for which Schwann contended, was universally accepted. 
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								The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways. World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011 
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								Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe." Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012 
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								Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe." Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012 
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								The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways. World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011 
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								But there was also something plantlike in the way Rain lay. Beard 2010 
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								He seemed so naive and plantlike, believing in chamomile herbs, not owning a camera, thinking I had a poodle that died. 
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								The condition is caused by eating fish containing toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, a one-celled plantlike organism that grows on algae in tropical waters worldwide. Archive 2006-10-01 2006 
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								The condition is caused by eating fish containing toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, a one-celled plantlike organism that grows on algae in tropical waters worldwide. Medpundit 2006 
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								The 'bots built cybernetic implants in the body, which then came bursting all metal-plantlike and horrifying out of the host's skin, reinforcing, rewiring, or just plain replacing the original organs. SeeLight: 2006 
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