单词 | green plant |
释义 | > as lemmasgreen plant a. gen. and Biology. A living organism other than an animal, able to subsist wholly on inorganic substances, typically fixed to a substrate and moving chiefly by means of growth, and lacking specialized sensory and digestive organs; spec. (more fully green plant) such an organism belonging to a group (the kingdom Plantae) which comprises multicellular forms having cellulose cell walls and capable of photosynthesis by means of chlorophyll, including trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, and ferns (the vascular or higher plants), and also mosses and liverworts (the bryophytes). Frequently spec.: a small (esp. herbaceous) organism of this kind, as distinguished from a tree or shrub; (in informal use) such an organism grown for or known by its foliage or fruit, as distinguished from a ‘flower’.Bacteria, formerly classified in the kingdom Plantae, have now been removed to a separate kingdom, and would generally not be referred to as plants. However, in the broadest (non-technical) sense, the term still may include fungi (and lichens), which are now classified in a separate kingdom, but were formerly regarded as lower (non-vascular) plants, together with algae and bryophytes. The position of algae is also equivocal: many scientific writers exclude them from the kingdom Plantae (placing them in the kingdom Protista or Protoctista), but green algae are still sometimes treated as lower plants, and non-technical use of the word ‘plant’ would often include multicellular algae (e.g. seaweeds). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] thingc1300 vegetablec1484 plantisouna1500 plantouna1500 vegetabilitya1500 vegetativea1500 plant1551 fellow creature1572 vegetal1591 morea1599 vegetive1602 vegetant1605 vegetationa1641 c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 1032 Apollo, god and gouernour Of euery plaunte [v.r. planete], herbe, tree, and flour. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 208 In trees and in plauntes is lif and vertu of lif right as in bestes but dyuersliche; ffor in plauntes lyf is y-hud, and in bestes openliche y-knowe and complete. a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Christ Church Oxf.) Jonah iv. 7 Jonas gladede on þe yuy..& god made redi a werm..& smot þe yuy plaunte, & it driede vp. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 33 Bachus was the man that first planted vynes in Grece;..thei seide that Bachus was a god, the which had youen such strengthe to his plante [v.rr. planet, plants]. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. A ij Ye Knowlege of plantes, herbes, and trees. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 26v Plants be sorted and deuided into three parts: the first is the Herbe: the seconde the Shrub: the third the Tree. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §608 Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Plant, a Natural Body that has a vegetable Soul. 1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 4) 353 So astonishing and wonderful is the organism, parts and functions of plants and trees. a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 193 Sickly Plants betray a niggard earth. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 180 Betula. Flowers male and female on the same plant. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 36 The original dimensions of this venerable plant. 1869 M. Foster in Nature 11 Nov. 53/2 Plants unburn what the animal burns; and so the heat of the sun brings back oxygen to the world. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 691/1 There are other degraded allies of green plants, which are content to work up again the imperfectly broken down products of decay. Such plants are termed Saprophytes. 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 81 Plants, because it is their nature to produce leaves, may, by an overplus of food, produce nothing else. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 2 An attractive..plant, with stout, smooth, hollow flower-stems. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxii. 453 Prickly pear..was introduced into Australia as an ornamental garden plant and escaped into the wild. 1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants Introd. p. vii There are no English names for the majority of the plants described here; most people are have been content to speak generally of, say, lichens, seaweeds, or mosses. 1984 S. Johnson Tunnel iii. 23 In front of the house was a garden full of plants and flowers. 2002 Horticulture Nov. 52 Slipper orchids are still some of the most intriguing indoor plants you can grow. < as lemmas |
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