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PLANT PRODUCT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plant product mean?
• PLANT PRODUCT (noun)
The noun PLANT PRODUCT has 1 sense:
1. a product made from plant material
Familiarity information: PLANT PRODUCT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A product made from plant material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("plant product" is a kind of...):
plant material; plant substance (material derived from plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant product"):
coca (dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect)
baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)
ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)
growth regulator; phytohormone; plant hormone ((botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone)
furfural; furfuraldehyde (a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent)
natural resin (a plant exudate)
plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)
saccharose; sucrose (a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent)
Context examples
A natural or synthetic substance, such as a drug, vitamin, hormone, plant product or food supplement, that may reduce the risk of developing or recurrence of tumor formation.
(Chemopreventive Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
It is a type of antineoplastic plant product.
(Bardoxolone, NCI Dictionary)
A sesquiterpene lactone peroxide and dimerized plant product derived from Artemisia annua L with anti-malarial, anti-proliferative and anti-angiogenic effects.
(Artemisinin Dimer, NCI Thesaurus)
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