A World Without Plants

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  1. 3. – Non-woody plants with hollow low jointed stems sheathed by narrow leaves, petal-less flowers, and fruit resembling grain: includes bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses of lawn, field, and pasture, and the plants used as cereal crops.
  2. 7. – Broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel derived from recently dead biological material.
  3. 9. – Any crop grown primarily for its oil content, such as soybeans, peanuts, cottonseed, and linseed (flaxseed).
  4. 11. – Pertaining to a sense of beauty or to aesthetics.
  5. 13. – The science of agriculture that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including the growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and ornamental shrubs and trees.
  6. 15. – The broad industry engaged in the production of plants and animals for food and fiber, the provisions of agricultural supplies and services, and the processing, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products.
  7. 16. – An organism distinguished from the animals in that it takes nutrients entirely in liquid solution, rather than in solid form.
  8. 17. – All effort directed toward increased knowledge of natural phenomena and the environment and toward the solution of problems in all fields of science. This includes basic and applied research. Much of the agricultural productivity of the United States is directly the result of applying research.
  9. 18. – Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general.
  10. 19. – A family of plants, including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, and alfalfa. With aid of symbiotic bacteria, they can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil.
  11. 21. – The embryo of a plant; also kernels of corn, wheat, etc., which botanically are seed-like fruits as they include the ovary wall.
  12. 23. – The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field–crop production and soil management. The scientific management of land.
  13. 25. – Any grass grown for its edible grain.
  14. 27. – The science of plants.
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  1. 1. – Cultivation of woody plants, particularly those used for decoration and shade.
  2. 2. – To beautify terrain as with plantings of trees, shrubs, and flowering herbs; with ornamental features, such as terraces, rock gardens, bog gardens, pools, walks, drives, etc.
  3. 4. – Any place where plants, shrubs, and trees are grown either for transplanting or as grafting stocks.
  4. 5. – The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
  5. 6. – Crop grown for its fiber, as cotton and flax.
  6. 8. – The sciences, arts, and business practices of crating, conserving, and managing natural resources on lands designated as forests.
  7. 10. – Those plants or parts of plants that are used for feed before maturing or developing seeds (field crops). The most common forage crops are pasture grasses and legumes.
  8. 12. – Any product of the soil. In a narrow sense, the product of a harvest obtained by labor, as distinguished from natural production or wild growth.
  9. 14. – The planting, tending, harvesting, and improving of plants.
  10. 18. – The edible part of an herbaceous plant.
  11. 20. – Pertaining to, or having the properties of a medicine.
  12. 22. – Botanically, the matured ovary of a flower and its contents including any external part that is an integral portion of it.
  13. 24. – A grove of fruit or nut trees.
  14. 26. – Anything which when taken into the body, nourishes the tissues and supplies body heat.