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The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

s belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the In…

class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

neral fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

owing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

tation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

sembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- calle…

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]