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A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte. [Obs.] Bacon.

To trip up. [Obs.] "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton.

The act of supplanting or displacing. Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness. Cloeridge.

One who supplants.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees. Dryden.

The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal. The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome.

One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

To plant under; specif. (Forestry),

A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.

A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

A windflower.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

ermined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

An animal or a plant native to the region. It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands. Darwin.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.