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plant - use in sentences
Object
- tree: Read more | Edinburgh Out & About The Man who planted trees.
- seed: But slowly the man began to clear the weeds, till the soil and plant the seeds.
- bulb: JUNE December 2005 With the last of the bulbs planted, the garden takes on a quiet feel.
Converse of object
- reprocess: The reprocessing plant was apparently operating, whilst the delegation were there.
- grow: We have four of them next to the veg plots and we use them to grow tender plants or to extend the growing season.
- cultivate: Each time, he sprayed the sunflower crossbreeds and backcrossed the most robust specimens with the original cultivated parent plants.
Adjective modifier
- flowering: Subjects: flowering plants, plant data, plant images.
- transgenic: Defective viral DNA ameliorates symptoms of geminivirus infection in transgenic plants.
- medicinal: Aston, B.C. ( 1923 ) The poisonous, suspected and medicinal plants of New Zealand.
- nuclear: The UK government should seek to support replacement of Magnox by new nuclear plant.
- wild: The areas surrounding the water have been allowed to develop naturally with trees, shrubbery and wild plants.
- herbaceous: This time of year is a perfect time to be lifting and splitting herbaceous plants before they put on too much vegetative growth.
Modifies a noun
- specie: Its two giant domes in a disused quarry house exotic plant species from around the world.
- breeding: It was agreed, for the comments on Chapter 4 of the First Report ( How reliable is GM plant breeding?
- pathology: Poster Gallery This shows some poster displays of plant pathology topics shown at scientific meetings in recent years.
- breeder: Unlike patents, there's no expiration date, no exemption for plant breeders, and no need for lawyers.
Noun used with modifier
- manufacturing: Honda were losing over 1,000 workers from their manufacturing plant in Yokohama.
- power: Power plants range from 49cc 2 stroke, to 110cc four stroke engines.
- sewage: At Newton Abbott, a recent contract called for the removal of a pen stock wall in a sewage treatment plant.
- processing: These were intended to put in place the key components of seed supply such as processing plants, stores and quality control facilities.
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