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A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
• 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.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Leguminous
  Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Plantlet
  A little plant.
• Planting
  of Plant
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• Plantable
  Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantule
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• Plantage
  A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Plantain
  A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

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