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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.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  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.

Editors Contribution

  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 Records

  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

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  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. Anthony Shelton:

    We all live in the age of genetics, whether it be looking at your family tree or genetically engineering plants, we just know so much more about the genes in insects that we can now utilize this knowledge to control the pest populations in a much more environmentally friendly way and a much more sustainable way.

  2. James Murphy:

    The other potential reason could be tied to climate change and human migration, since these worms are often spread through soil, it is possible that an influx of exotic plants into an area along with rising temperatures could lead to increased populations.

  3. Sean Sherman:

    We look at the world around us today through an Indigenous perspective and try to find out what is our relationship with these plants that grow around us today as our indigenous ancestors did, is it edible, medicinal, can you craft with it, like what is the purpose, what is our relationship ?

  4. Tyson Foods:

    Three of our six pork plants are not operating today due to weather-related road conditions and one other plant will operate only one shift of production.

  5. Prashant Gargava:

    The 2019 deadline was sort of pushing the power plants in national capital region (NCR) beyond their capacities.

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