Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having characteristics of a plant

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word plantlike.

Examples

  • The long-current idea that animal tissues grow only as a sort of deposit from the blood-vessels was now discarded, and the fact of so-called plantlike growth of animal cells, for which Schwann contended, was universally accepted.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe."

    Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012

  • Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe."

    Russ Belville: The Top Ten "Stupid Stoner Stories" of 2011 Russ Belville 2012

  • The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • But there was also something plantlike in the way Rain lay.

    Beard 2010

  • He seemed so naive and plantlike, believing in chamomile herbs, not owning a camera, thinking I had a poodle that died.

    So I Drew Him a Poodle 2009

  • The condition is caused by eating fish containing toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, a one-celled plantlike organism that grows on algae in tropical waters worldwide.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • The condition is caused by eating fish containing toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, a one-celled plantlike organism that grows on algae in tropical waters worldwide.

    Medpundit 2006

  • The 'bots built cybernetic implants in the body, which then came bursting all metal-plantlike and horrifying out of the host's skin, reinforcing, rewiring, or just plain replacing the original organs.

    SeeLight: 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.