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. Traci Minamide:

   Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is one of the largest treatment plants in the country and that water right now is being treated and discharged. We're just losing Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant out to Santa Monica Bay, there's an opportunity for us to treat that water in a very advanced fashion under regulations, to a point where Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant can actually be used to help the water supply system.

2. Roland Vetter:

   There will probably be a solution centred around the idling of brown coal plants against compensation, it may make sense politically, but it is not economic and not the best solution for climate policy.

3. Mohammed Alomran:

   What is alarming in the Saudi petrochemical industry is its obsolete fixed assets and inefficiency, where large numbers of plants today are more than 20-30 years old and do not match parameters of fuel consumption and need to be replaced.

4. Yui Kimura:

   One accident with a nuclear power plant leads to irreversible damage to both human lives and the environment. The executives of companies that operate such plants also have a huge responsibility on them that is incomparable with other companies, i think the court's judgment says that anyone who does not have the determination or capability to take on that responsibility should not become an executive.

5. Yukio Kani:

   We want to set the overall direction toward combining our existing plants by the spring of 2017.

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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