PLANT SUBSTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant substance mean? 

• PLANT SUBSTANCE (noun)
  The noun PLANT SUBSTANCE has 1 sense:

1. material derived from plants

  Familiarity information: PLANT SUBSTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT SUBSTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material derived from plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

plant material; plant substance

Hypernyms ("plant substance" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant substance"):

cutin ((biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids)

chaff; husk; shuck; stalk; straw; stubble (material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds)

cork (outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.)

plant product (a product made from plant material)

vegetable tallow (a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow)

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)