life plant
noun
Origin of life plant
1First recorded in 1850–55
Words Nearby life plant
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How to use life plant in a sentence
The life-plant is the most peculiar growth in nature, and cannot be confounded with anything else.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills | Edwin Carlile LitseyOne or more of the many forms of life—plant and animal—that were previously held within certain limits gain ascendency.
A Book of Natural History | VariousI'm not altogether satisfied about this life-plant, although I know 'Crombie wouldn't joke with me about so serious a matter.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills | Edwin Carlile LitseyIt is true I had found nothing which resembled the life-plant in the least, and already I had traveled far.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills | Edwin Carlile LitseyI also questioned 'Crombie about the life-plant, for I had never been quite easy on the subject.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills | Edwin Carlile Litsey
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