| castor-oil plant |
a large tropical plant, native to Africa and Asia, from whose seeds castor oil is extracted. |
| century plant |
a desert agave, once believed to flower only once in a century, with fleshy leaves and a very tall stem on which greenish flowers appear every ten to twenty years. |
| Chinese lantern plant |
a perennial plant grown for its orange, lantern-shaped, inflated seed casings; winter ground cherry. |
| gas plant |
see "dittany." |
| jade plant |
a popular thick-leaved houseplant that is native to South Africa and Asia. |
| oyster plant |
see "salsify." |
| pitcher plant |
any of various plants bearing slippery, pitcherlike leaves that contain enzymes to digest trapped insects. |
| plant louse |
an aphid, or any of various related insects. |
| plant medicine |
a traditional practice in which herbs and plant extracts are used to treat disease; herbal medicine. [3 definitions] |
| power plant |
a complex of buildings, machinery, and equipment where electrical power is generated from another energy source, such as moving water, burning coal, or nuclear reactions. |
| resurrection plant |
any of several plants, such as the rose of Jericho, that curl up during dry periods and expand and become green again when they get water. |
| rubber plant |
any of several plants that yield a milky sap from which crude rubber can be coagulated. [2 definitions] |
| seed plant |
any plant that bears seeds; spermatophyte. |
| sensitive plant |
a tropical American plant, related to the mimosa, that bears tiny purple flowers in clusters and has leaflets that fold together at even a slight touch. [2 definitions] |
| spider plant |
a plant of the lily family, with long, narrow, sometimes white-streaked leaves, commonly grown as a houseplant. |
| umbrella plant |
a grasslike aquatic African plant with a triangular stem crowned by an umbrellalike growth of leaves and green spikelets. |
| water plant |
a plant that lives submerged in water or that has its roots in or under water. |