| NOUN | substance | plant substance, plant material | material derived from plants |
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| Meaning | material derived from plants. | |
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| Synonym | plant material | |
| Narrower | chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble | material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds |
| cork | Outer bark of the cork oak | |
| cutin | (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | |
| plant product | A product made from plant material | |
| vegetable tallow | A waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow | |
| wood | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees | |
| Broader | material, stuff | The tangible / tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
| Spanish | materia vegetal | |
| Catalan | matèria vegetal | |
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