Definitions for plants
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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  

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

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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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. Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue:

   The amount of water that is being stolen to water those( marijuana) plants has a huge impact on our local aquifers.

2. President Barack Obama:

   Power plants are the single biggest source of harmful carbon pollution that contributes to climate change, until now, there have been no federal limits to the amount of carbon pollution plants dump in the air.

3. Ana María Gazmuri:

   It's very exciting for me just to think about all of these wonderful plants that are growing are going to improve the quality of life of many people around our country. That's the bottom line. We have heard of many stories, many cases and we know, we clearly know, how using cannabis for medicinal purposes when fighting against a serious disease can make a great difference.

4. Jacob Torres:

   Understanding how to grow plants to supplement the astronauts diet would be essential to our mission to going to Mars, so that kind of fuels our research that were doing now.

5. David Perry:

   We're not modifying nature in any way, we're simply identifying micro-organisms that are already beneficial to the plants and applying them in high concentrations to the seed.

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