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- adjective Having characteristics of a
plant
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Examples
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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.
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The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways.
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Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe."
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Authorities found a "small plastic sandwich bag containing a green leafy plantlike substance and a small wooden marijuana pipe."
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The new genes were making the neurons behave in plantlike ways.
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But there was also something plantlike in the way Rain lay.
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He seemed so naive and plantlike, believing in chamomile herbs, not owning a camera, thinking I had a poodle that died.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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