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Plantain
- noun - a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
- any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
- starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
Planters
- noun - a decorative pot for house plants
- a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
- the owner or manager of a plantation
Planting
- verb - a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
- fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
- place into a river; "plant fish"
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"
- put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds"
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
- putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"
- set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"
- the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"
Plantlet
- noun - a young plant or a small plant
Plantule
- - The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
Planulae
- noun - the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
Plashing
- verb - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge"
Plashoot
- - A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed.
Plasmids
- noun - a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication
Plasmins
- noun - an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots