Planted (a.) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
Planter (n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
Planter (n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
Planter (n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Plantership (n.) The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
Planticle (n.) A young plant, or plant in embryo.
Plantigrada (n. pl.) A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
Plantigrade (a.) Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
Plantigrade (a.) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
Plantigrade (n.) A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.
Planting (n.) The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.
Planting (n.) That which is planted; a plantation.
Planting (n.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.
Plantless (a.) Without plants; barren of vegetation.
Plantlet (n.) A little plant.
Plantocracy (n.) Government by planters; planters, collectively.
Plantule (n.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
Planulae (pl. ) of Planula
Planula (n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.
Planula (n.) The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.
Planxty (n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.
Plaque (n.) Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.
Plash (v.) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
Plash (v.) A dash of water; a splash.
Plashed (imp. & p. p.) of Plash
Plashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plash
Plash (v. i.) To dabble in water; to splash.
Plash (v. t.) To splash, as water.
Plash (v. t.) To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.
Plashed (imp. & p. p.) of Plash
Plashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plash
Plash (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.
Plash (n.) The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
Plashet (n.) A small pond or pool; a puddle.
Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
Plashing (n.) The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed.
Plashy (a.) Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
Plashy (a.) Specked, as if plashed with color.
Plasm (n.) A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
Plasm (n.) Same as Plasma.
Plasma (n.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
Plasma (n.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
Plasma (n.) Unorganized material; elementary matter.
Plasma (n.) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
Plasmatic (a.) Alt. of Plasmatical
Plasmatical (a.) Forming; shaping; molding.
Plasmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to plasma; having the character of plasma; containing, or conveying, plasma.
Plasmation (n.) The act of forming or molding.
Plasmator (n.) A former; a fashioner.
Plasmature (n.) Form; mold.
Plasmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.
Plasmid (n.) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease.
Plasmin (n.) A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.
Plasmodial (a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a plasmodium; as, the plasmodial form of a life cycle.
Plasmodia (pl. ) of Plasmodium
Plasmodium (n.) A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
Plasmodium (n.) A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
Plasmogen (n.) The important living portion of protoplasm, considered a chemical substance of the highest elaboration. Germ plasm and idioplasm are forms of plasmogen.
Plasson (n.) The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.
Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
Plaster (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.
Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.
Plastered (imp. & p. p.) of Plaster
Plastering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plaster
Plaster (v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
Plaster (v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
Plaster (v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
Plasterer (n.) One who applies plaster or mortar.
Plasterer (n.) One who makes plaster casts.
Plastering (n.) Same as Plaster, n., 2.
Plastering (n.) The act or process of overlaying with plaster.
Plastering (n.) A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
Plasterly (a.) Resembling plaster of Paris.
Plasterwork (n.) Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
Plastery (a.) Of the nature of plaster.
-plastic () A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.
Plastic (a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
Plastic (a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
Plastic (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
plastic (n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
Plastical (a.) See Plastic.
Plastically (adv.) In a plastic manner.
Plasticity (n.) The quality or state of being plastic.
Plasticity (n.) Plastic force.
Plastid (n.) Alt. of Plastide
Plastide (n.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon.
Plastide (n.) One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.
Plastidozoa (n. pl.) Same as Protoza.
Plastidule (n.) One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm.
Plastin (n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.
Plastography (n.) The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
Plastography (n.) Imitation of handwriting; forgery.
Plastron (n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.
Plastron (n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.
Plastron (n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.
Plastron (n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
-plasty () A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.
Platted (imp. & p. p.) of Plat
Platting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plat