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PLANT PRODUCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A product made from plant material
Classified under:
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)
