Definitions for Plants
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1. plants

   Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize, but still have flowers, fruits, and seeds. Plants are characterized by sexual reproduction and alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is also common. There are about 320,000 known species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260,000–290,000, produce seeds. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen, and are the basis of most of Earth's ecosystems. Plants that produce grain, fruit, and vegetables also form basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.

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1. Plants

   Multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of the kingdom Plantae. They are characterized by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localized regions of cell divisions (MERISTEMS); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absence of nervous and sensory systems; and an alteration of haploid and diploid generations.

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1. plantsnoun

   Plural noun and verb form of the word plant.

   My mother has a number of plants.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 9, 2015  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PLANTS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Plants is ranked #29581 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Plants surname appeared 797 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Plants.
   
   95.8% or 764 total occurrences were White.
   2.3% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Plants' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1411

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Plants' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2724

How to pronounce Plants?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Plants in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Plants in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Plants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Plants in a Sentence

1. Rafael Mariano Grossi:

   The military conflict is putting Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and other facilities with radioactive material in unprecedented danger, we must take urgent action to make sure that they can continue to operate safely and securely and reduce the risk of a nuclear accident that could have a severe health and environmental impact both in Ukraine and beyond.

2. Amy Shah:

   It’s a known trigger and it’s definitely released a lot more in the older plants than newer, but in all coal burning power plants you get that.

3. Souheil Ezzedine:

   That's not good news. A lot of power plants of PGE are pretty much on the shore.

4. Ivan Ivanov:

   At a closed sitting earlier today, the commission approved the agreement between NEK and ContourGlobal on amendments to the energy purchase contract, the commission kept its engagement in terms of the two agreements with the power plants.

5. Elizabeth Sattely:

   Producing plant-derived drugs in easy-to-grow plants or baker's yeast in many cases will be a much more efficient way to make these drugs, this is currently being done for artemisinin (a malaria drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant), and will likely be the way we make morphine (derived from poppies) in the future.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html