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A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

• Genus
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• Planter
  One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
• PLANTCANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• Included
  of Include
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Beetle
  A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
• Including
  of Include
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Beetled
  of Beetle
• Include
  To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Includible
  Capable of being included.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Beetle-browed
  Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
• Plant
  A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single ce
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Beetlehead
  A stupid fellow; a blockhead.
• Planted
  of Plant

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