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plants

  • plural of plant.
  • present tense form of plant (3rd person singular).

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Instead of talking about replacing regular fertilizer, it says its microbes supply between 15% and 30% of plants’ nitrogen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

"We grew the plant in different microbial communities with different drought memories and then measured plants' performance to understand what was beneficial and what was not."

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Redeia, owner of Red Eléctrica, has blamed the blackout on some coal, gas and nuclear power plants' failure to help maintain appropriate voltage.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

No one thought so much about plants’ drought-tolerant or shade-giving virtues then.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

Several hold freshly harvested taro, the plants’ leaves a shimmering green and the corms still dripping mud.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila