| plantership | The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| planticle | A young plant, or plant in embryo. Origin: Dim. Of Plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantigrada | <zoology> A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantigrade | <zoology> Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. Origin: L. Planta sole of the foot + gradi to walk: cf. F. Plantigrade. <zoology> A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planting | 1. 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. 2. That which is planted; a plantation. "Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." (Isa. Lxi. 3) 3. The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantless | Without plants; barren of vegetation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantlet | A little plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantocracy | Government by planters; planters, collectively. Origin: Planter + -cracy, as in democracy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plants | Multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of the kingdom plantae. They are characterised by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localised regions of cell divisions (meristems); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absense of nervous and sensory systems; and an alteration of haploid and diploid generations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plants, edible | An organism of the vegetable kingdom suitable by nature for use as a food, especially by human beings. Not all parts of any given plant are edible but all parts of edible plants have been known to figure as raw or cooked food: leaves, roots, tubers, stems, seeds, buds, fruits, and flowers. The most commonly edible parts of plants are fruit, usually sweet, fleshy, and succulent. Most edible plants are commonly cultivated for their nutritional value and are referred to as vegetables. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plants, medicinal | Plants whose roots, leaves, seeds, bark, or other constituent possess therapeutic, tonic, purgative, or other pharmacologic activity when administered to higher animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plants, toxic | Plants or plant parts which are harmful to man or other animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plants, transgenic | Plants into which genetic material from another species has been transferred. The technique most frequently applied makes use of a natural plant-directed gene vector, the gram-negative soil bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens. A second system more analogous to those used for transforming mammalian cell lines is the direct transfer of DNA into plant protoplasts, for example by electroporation or polyethylene glycol treatment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plantule | <botany> The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. Origin: F, dim. Of plante a plant, L. Planta. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planula | Origin: L, a little plane. 1. <biology> 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. 2. <zoology> The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Plastocyanine, Silver Plastocyanin, Plastocyanin, Silver
Synonyms : Plastoquinol-Plastocyanin Oxidoreductase, Oxidoreductase, Plastoquinol-Plastocyanin, Plastoquinol Plastocyanin Oxidoreductase, Plastoquinol Plastocyanin Reductase, Reductase, Plastoquinol-Plastocyanin
Synonyms : Plastoquinone-9, Plastoquinone 9
Synonyms : 1-Alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerophosphocholine, Platelet Aggregating Factor, Platelet Aggregation Enhancing Factor, Platelet-Activating Substance, Thrombocyte Aggregating Activity, 1 Alkyl 2 acetyl sn glycerophosphocholine, Aggregating Factor, Platelet
Synonyms : Activation, Platelet, Activations, Platelet, Platelet Activations
| plan |
have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family" a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" design: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were on file" design: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
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| pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma |
form of rhabdomyosarcoma that affects limb muscles of older adults
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| pleurodont |
an animal having teeth consolidate with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets
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| plug |
blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly chew: a wad of something chewable as tobacco ballyhoo: blatant or sensational promotion fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" spark plug: electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection persist in working hard; "Students must plug away at this problem" fireplug: an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire punch: deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach" hack: an old or over-worked horse make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
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| pleuropneumonialike organism |
a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
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| PL | coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees |
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| PL | the property of having two dimensions |
| PL | a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood |
| PL | a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States |
| PL | any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system |
| PL | a person who follows or serves another |
| PL | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train |
| PL | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train |
| PL | of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets |
| PL | an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems |
| PL | an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome |
| PL | a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling |