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A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte.

Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.] Coleridge.

To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]

Act of taking up plants from beds.

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

wers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.

A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing a…

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

The act or process of implantating.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

To implant again.

To plant again.

That may be planted again.

The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] Hallywell.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.