plant life - a living organism lacking the power of locomotionorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently phytoplankton - photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae parasite - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); the parasite obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host coca - dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their simulating effect gas system - facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service circulation - free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant) mescal - a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant) horticulturist, plantsman - an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) endemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island" plantlet - a young plant or a small plant wilding - a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crab-apple tree) ornamental - any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value pot plant - a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors) acrogen - any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem apomict - a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis aquatic - a plant that lives in or on water cryptogam - formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi annual - a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year biennial - a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season perennial - a plant lasting for three seasons or more escape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild hygrophyte - a plant that grows in a moist habitat neophyte - a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously embryo - (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium sporophyte - the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations gametophyte - the gamete-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores houseplant - any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes garden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism rock plant - plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden |