Superplant

Quick meaning: Superplant is a noun meaning A plant that is particularly robust and which thrives in poor growing conditions or dominates an ecosystem.

Meaning

A plant that is particularly robust and which thrives in poor growing conditions or dominates an ecosystem.

More Meanings

1. A plant that is unusual in its ability to perform an especially useful function
2. A plant that can be eaten for particular health benefits or particularly high nutritional value; a superfood.
3. A plant that is created through unnatural means, such as genetic engineering, to be stronger than others.
4. (manufacturing) A manufacturing plant that is particularly large and efficient, especially one that combines functions normally handled in separate plants.
5. (dentistry) A type of prosthesis composed of a fixed saddle rigidly connected to one or more abutments, especially one with subperiosteal implants.
6. (obsolete) A plant growing on another, such as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.

Example Sentences

Experiments in consort touching the rudiments of plants ; and of the excrescences of plants , or superplants

A lot of your early field research was in the desert, and one plant that you studied was creosote, which you have called "the superplant of the desert."

Tamarisk's long seed viability allows it to flourish under such conditions where willows and cottonwoods cannot. It has proven to be a biological superplant.

And they surely speak probably who make it an arboreous excrescence, or rather superplant, bred of a viscous and superfluous sap which the tree it self cannot assimilate.

Word Forms

• superplants

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phorophyte, epiphyte, macroplant, supercrescence, hostplant, airplant.

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