Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 73
Plane (v. t.) To efface or remove.
He planed away the names . . . written on his tables. -- Chaucer.
Plane (v. t.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth. [R.]
What student came but that you planed her path. -- Tennyson.
Compare: Aeroplane
Aeroplane (n.) (A["e]ronautics) A light rigid plane used in a["e]rial navigation to oppose sudden upward or downward movement in the air, as in gliding machines; specif., such a plane slightly inclined and driven forward as a lifting device in some flying machines. Also called airfoil.
Aeroplane (n.) Hence: A heavier-than-air flying machine using such a device to provide lift; an airplane. In a modern aeroplane, the airfoils are called the wings, and most of the lift is derived from these surfaces. In contrast to helicopters, the wings are fixed to the passenger compartment (airframe) and do not move relative to the frame; thus such a machine is called a fixed-wing aircraft. These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the number of main supporting planes (wings) used in their construction. After 1940 few planes with more than one airfoil were constructed, and these are used by hobbyists or for special purposes. Being heavier than air they depend for their levitation on motion imparted by the thrust from either propellers driven by an engine, or, in a jet plane, by the reaction from a high-velocity stream of gases expelled rearward from a jet engine. They start from the ground by a run on small wheels or runners, and are guided by a steering apparatus consisting of horizontal and vertical movable planes, which usually form part of the wings or tail. There are many varieties of form and construction, which in some cases are known by the names of their inventors. In U.S., an aeroplane is usually called an airplane or plane.
Plane (a.) Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane].
Plane (n.) An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" [syn: airplane, aeroplane, plane].
Plane (n.) (Mathematics) An unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" [syn: plane, sheet].
Plane (n.) A level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane."
Plane (n.) A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood [syn: plane, planer, planing machine].
Plane (n.) A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" [syn: plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane].
Plane (v.) Cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" [syn: plane, shave].
Plane (v.) Travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim].
Plane (v.) Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door."
Plane-parallel (a.) (Optics) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
Planer (n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
Planer (n.) (Print.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. -- Hansard.
Planer centers. See under Center.
Planer (n.) A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood [syn: plane, planer, planing machine].
Planer tree () (Bot.) A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
Planet (n.) (Astron.) 行星 [C] A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
Note: The term planet was first used to distinguish those stars which have an apparent motion through the constellations from the fixed stars, which retain their relative places unchanged. The inferior planets are Mercury and Venus, which are nearer to the sun than is the earth; the superior planets are Mars, the asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which are farther from the sun than is the earth. Primary planets are those which revolve about the sun; secondary planets, or moons, are those which revolve around the primary planets as satellites, and at the same time revolve with them about the sun.
Planet (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
There's some ill planet reigns. -- Shak.
Planet gear. (Mach.) See Epicyclic train, under Epicyclic.
Planet wheel, A gear wheel which revolves around the wheel with which it meshes, in an epicyclic train.
Planet (n.) (Astronomy) Any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction [syn: planet, major planet].
Planet (n.) A person who follows or serves another [syn: satellite, planet].
Planet (n.) Any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star.
Compare: Astronomy
Astronomy (n.) 天文學 [U] Astronomy is the study of the sun, moon, stars, planets, comets, gas, galaxies, gas, dust and other non-Earthly bodies and phenomena. In curriculum for K-4 students, NASA defines astronomy as simple "the study of stars, planets and space." Astronomy and astrology were historically associated, but astrology is not a science and is no longer recognized as having anything to do with astronomy. Below we discuss the history of astronomy and related fields of study, including cosmology.
Historically, astronomy has focused on observations of heavenly bodies. It is a close cousin to astrophysics. Succinctly put, astrophysics involves the study of the physics of astronomy and concentrates on the behavior, properties and motion of objects out there. However, modern astronomy includes many elements of the motions and characteristics of these bodies, and the two terms are often used interchangeably today.
Modern astronomers tend to fall into two fields: the theoretical and the observational.
Compare: Cosmology
Cosmology (n.) (pl. - ies) [Mass noun] 宇宙論 The science of the origin and development of the universe. Modern cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory, which brings together observational astronomy and particle physics.
Cosmology (n.) [Count noun] An account or theory of the origin of the universe.
Plane table () See under Plane, a.
Plane table (n.) Surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board and a ruler that are mounted on a tripod; used to sight and map topographical details.
Planetarium (n.) An orrery. See Orrery.
Planetarium (n.) A building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling.
Planetarium (n.) An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome.
Planetarium (n.) An apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
Planetary (a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
Planetary (a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
Planetary (a.) (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
Planetary (a.) Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." -- Shak.
Planetary (a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." -- Fuller.
Planetary days, The days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. -- Hutton.
Planetary nebula, A nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.
Planetary (a.) Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [syn: planetal, planetary].
Planetary (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations" -- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" [syn: planetary, terrestrial].
Planetary (a.) Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering].
Planetary (a.) Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance" [syn: global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wide].
Planeted (a.) Belonging to planets. [R.] -- Young. Planetic
Planetic (a.) Alt. of Planetical.
Planetical (a.) Of or pertaining to planets. -- Sir T. Browne.
Planetoid (n.) (Astron.) A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
Planetoid (n.) Any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun [syn: minor planet, planetoid].
Planetoid (n.) [ C ] 小行星 An asteroid.
Planetoidal (a.) Pertaining to a planetoid.
Plane tree () (Bot.) Same as 1st Plane. Planet-stricken
Plane tree (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits [syn: plane tree, sycamore, platan].
Plane tree, () Heb. 'armon (Gen. 30:37; Ezek. 31:8), rendered "chesnut" in the Authorized Version, but correctly "plane tree" in the Revised Version and the LXX. This tree is frequently found in Palestine, both on the coast and in the north. It usually sheds its outer bark, and hence its Hebrew name, which means "naked." (See CHESTNUT.)
Planet-stricken (a.) Alt. of Planet-struck.
Planet-struck (a.) Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. -- Milton.
Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. -- Wordsworth.
Planetule (n.) A little planet. [R.] -- Conybeare.
Plangency (n.) 隆隆作響；回蕩；轟鳴；淒切動人 The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]
Plangency (n.) Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy].
Plangent (a.) （波浪等）沖擊的；轟鳴響的；悲切的 Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." -- H. Taylor.
Plangent (a.) Loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority."
Plangent (a.) Beating with a loud or deep sound, as, "the plangent wave."
Plangent (a.) Expressing sadness; plaintive. Plangent derives from the present participle of Latin plangere, to beat, to strike (noisily), especially to strike the breast, head, etc. as a sign of grief.
Plani- (a.) Alt. of
Planifolious (a.) (Bot.) Flat-leaved.
Planiform (a.) (Anat.) Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation.
Planimeter (n.) 測面器 An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer. Planimetric
Planimeter (n.) A measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure [syn: integrator, planimeter].
Planimetric (a.) Alt. of Planimetrical.
Planimetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to planimetry.
Planimetry (n.) 平面測量學 The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
Planing () a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.
Planing machine. (a) See Planer.
Planing machine. (b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.
Planipennate (a.) Of or pertaining to Planipennia.
Planipennia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.
Planipetalous (a.) Having flat petals.
Planished (imp. & p. p.) of Planish.
Planishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Planish.
Planish (v. t.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.
Planisher (n.) One who, or that which, planishes. -- Weale.
Planishing () a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t.
Planishing rolls (Coining), Rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.
Planisphere (n.) The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.
Planispheric (a.) Of or pertaining to a planisphere.
Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
Plank (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. -- Southey.
Plank (n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform. [Cant]
Plank road, or Plank way, A road surface formed of planks. [U.S.]
To walk the plank, To walk along a plank laid across the bulwark of a ship, until one overbalances it and falls into the sea; -- a method of disposing of captives practiced by pirates.
Planked (imp. & p. p.) of Plank.
Planking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plank.
Plank (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. "Planked with pine." -- Dryden.
Plank (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]
Plank (v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
Plank (v. t.) (Wooden Manuf.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
Planked shad, Shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.
Plank (n.) A stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes [syn: board, plank].
Plank (n.) An endorsed policy in the platform of a political party.
Plank (v.) Cover with planks; "The streets were planked" [syn: plank, plank over].
Plank (v.) Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump].
Plank (v.) Cook and serve on a plank; "Planked vegetable"; "Planked shad."
Planking (n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
Planking (n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
Planking (n.) Planks collectively; a quantity of planks.
Planking (n.) (Nautical) A covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship).
Planking (n.) The work of covering an area with planks.
Plank-sheer (n.) The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
Planless (a.) Having no plan.
Planless (a.) Aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected].
Planner (n.) One who plans; a projector.
Planner (n.) A person who makes plans [syn: planner, contriver, deviser].
Planner (n.) A notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc..
Planner, () A language for writing theorem provers by Carl Hewitt MIT 1967. Never fully implemented.
CONNIVER was an outgrowth of PLANNER and microPLANNER a subset. PLASMA is a PLANNER-like system modelled on Actors. See also POPLER, QLISP, Scheme.
["PLANNER: A Language for Proving Theorems in Robots", Carl Hewitt, Proc IJCAI-69, Wash DC, May 1969].
Plani-, Plano-, () Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.
Plano- () See Plani-.
Plano, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 5633
Housing Units (2000): 1973
Land area (2000): 3.513471 sq. miles (9.099849 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.042408 sq. miles (0.109835 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.555879 sq. miles (9.209684 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60352
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.663137 N, 88.535987 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60545
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plano, IL
Plano
Plano, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 58
Housing Units (2000): 40
Land area (2000): 0.564606 sq. miles (1.462323 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.564606 sq. miles (1.462323 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63345
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.756189 N, 93.046327 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52581
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Headwords:
Plano, IA
Plano
Plano, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 222030
Housing Units (2000): 86078
Land area (2000): 71.566021 sq. miles (185.355135 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.062053 sq. miles (0.160716 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 71.628074 sq. miles (185.515851 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58016
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.050374 N, 96.745935 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75023 75024 75025 75074 75075 75093
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plano, TX
Plano
Planoblast (n.) (Zool.) Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
Plano-concave (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.
Plano-conical (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. -- Grew.
Plano-convex (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.
Compare: Bulging
Bulging (a.) Curving or bulging outward. Opposite of concave.
[Narrower terms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform; broken-backed, hogged; convexo-concave; gibbous, gibbose; planoconvex] Also See: protrusive.
Syn: convex.
Bulging (a.) Curving outward.
Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.
Plano-horizontal (a.) Having a level horizontal surface or position. -- Lee.
Planometer (n.) An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
Planometry (n.) (Mech.) The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
Plano-orbicular (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
Planorbis (n.) (Zool.) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
Plano-subulate (a.) Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
Plant (n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
Note: Plants are divided by their structure and methods of reproduction into two series, ph[ae]nogamous or flowering plants, which have true flowers and seeds, and cryptogamous or flowerless plants, which have no flowers, and reproduce by minute one-celled spores. In both series are minute and simple forms and others of great size and complexity. As to their mode of nutrition, plants may be considered as self-supporting and dependent. Self-supporting plants always contain chlorophyll, and subsist on air and moisture and the matter dissolved in moisture, and as a general rule they excrete oxygen, and use the carbonic acid to combine with water and form the material for their tissues. Dependent plants comprise all fungi and many flowering plants of a parasitic or saprophytic nature. As a rule, they have no chlorophyll, and subsist mainly or wholly on matter already organized, thus utilizing carbon compounds already existing, and not excreting oxygen. But there are plants which are partly dependent and partly self-supporting. The movements of climbing plants, of some insectivorous plants, of leaves, stamens, or pistils in certain plants, and the ciliary motion of zoospores, etc., may be considered a kind of voluntary motion.
Plant (n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." -- Dryden.
Plant (n.) The sole of the foot. [R.] "Knotty legs and plants of clay." -- B. Jonson.
Plant (n.) (Com.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
Plant (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang]
It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey. -- Dickens.
Plant (n.) (Zool.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
Plant (n.) (Zool.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. [Local, U.S.]
Plant bug (Zool.), Any one of numerous hemipterous insects which injure the foliage of plants, as Lygus lineolaris, which damages wheat and trees.
Plant cutter (Zool.), A South American passerine bird of the genus Phytotoma, family Phytotomid[ae]. It has a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injury.
Plant louse (Zool.), Any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families Aphid[ae] and Psyllid[ae]; an aphid.
Planted (imp. & p. p.) of Plant.
Planting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plant.
Plant (v. t.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
Plant (v. t.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. -- Deut. xvi. 21.
Plant (v. t.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
Plant (v. t.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
It engenders choler, planteth anger. -- Shak.
Plant (v. t.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods. -- Bacon.
Plant (v. t.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
Plant (v. t.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
Plant (v. t.) To set up; to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne. -- Shak.
Plant (v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
I have planted; Apollos watered. -- 1 Cor. iii. 6.
Plant (n.) Buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" [syn: plant, works, industrial plant].
Plant (n.) (Botany) A living organism lacking the power of locomotion [syn: plant, flora, plant life].
Plant (n.) An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.
Plant (n.) Something planted secretly for discovery by another; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant."
Plant (v.) Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden" [syn: plant, set].
Plant (v.) Fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant].
Plant (v.) Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: establish, found, plant, constitute, institute].
Plant (v.) Place into a river; "plant fish."
Plant (v.) Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment."
Plant (v.) Put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds" [syn: plant, implant].
Plantable (a.) Capable of being planted; fit to be planted. -- B. Edwards.
Plantage (n.) A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. -- Shak. (Troil. iii. sc. 2).
Plantain (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian.
Mud plantain, A homely North American aquatic plant ({Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves.
Rattlesnake plantain, An orchidaceous plant ({Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white.
Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort.
Robin's plantain, The Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America.
Water plantain, A plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. -- Loudon.
Plantain (n.) (Bot.) A treelike perennial herb ({Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
Plantain (n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
Plantain cutter, or Plantain eater (Zool.), Any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagid[ae], especially Musophaga violacea.
See Turaco. They are allied to the cuckoos.
Plantain squirrel (Zool.), A Java squirrel ({Sciurus plantani) which feeds upon plantains.
Plantain tree (Bot.), The treelike herb Musa paradisiaca. See def. 1 (above).
Plantain (n.) Any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally.
Plantain (n.) A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics [syn: plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca].
Plantain (n.) Starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics.
Plantal (a.) Belonging to plants; as, plantal life. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Plantal (a.) Of or relating to plants.
Plantar (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
Plantar (a.) Relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot; "plantar warts can be very painful."
Plantation (n.) [C] 農園，大農場；造林地；人造林 The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.]
Plantation (n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. -- B. Trumbull.
Plantation (n.) An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas).
Plantation (n.) A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); "the practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century."
Plantation (n.) Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth [syn: {grove}, {woodlet}, {orchard}, {plantation}].
Plantation, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 82934
Housing Units (2000): 34999
Land area (2000): 21.737874 sq. miles (56.300832 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.193331 sq. miles (0.500726 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 21.931205 sq. miles (56.801558 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57425
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 26.124354 N, 80.249503 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33317 33324
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Headwords:
Plantation, FL
Plantation
Plantation, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 4168
Housing Units (2000): 2837
Land area (2000): 2.447822 sq. miles (6.339829 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003509 sq. miles (0.009087 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.451331 sq. miles (6.348916 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57450
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.063568 N, 82.370146 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33317 33324
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Headwords:
Plantation, FL
Plantation
Plantation, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 902
Housing Units (2000): 375
Land area (2000): 0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.201770 sq. miles (0.522582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61554
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.283420 N, 85.591635 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Plantation, KY
Plantation
Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
Plant-eating (a.) (Of animals) Feeding on plants [syn: plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous].