Vocabulary : Planorbis to Plant-cane

Planorbis : Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
Plano-subulate : Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
Plant : A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. ;; A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. ;; The sole of the foot. ;; The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad. ;; A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. ;; An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. ;; A young oyster suitable for transplanting. ;; To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. ;; To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. ;; To furnish, or fit out, wi
Plantable : Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
Plantage : A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

Plantain : A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa. ;; The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked. ;; Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
Plantal : Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.
Plantar : Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
Plantation : The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. ;; The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. ;; An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Plant-cane : A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

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