"(plant)" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhí wù plant / vegetation / CL:種|种[zhong3]
 zhòng zhí to plant / to grow (a crop) / to cultivate
 zhī fáng fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food)
线 dǐ xiàn bottom line / the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy / informer / plant
 jiā gōng chǎng processing plant
 diàn chǎng electric power plant
 diàn zhàn a power station / an electricity generating plant
 zhì zào chǎng manufacturing plant / factory
 yù nu:3 beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
 huà gōng chǎng chemical factory / chemical plant
 mào mì dense (of plant growth) / lush
 zhí shù to plant trees
 bìng chóng hài plant diseases and insect pests
 zhí bèi vegetation / plant cover
 shuǐ diàn zhàn hydroelectric power plant
 mài luò arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context
 fā diàn chǎng power plant
 fēng dǐng to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
 miáo pǔ plant nursery / seedbed
  plant site
 zhí zhū plant (horticulture)
 bìng hài plant disease
 hé diàn zhàn nuclear power plant
 huā zhī spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms) / cuttlefish (on dining menus) / (literary) beautiful woman
 xué míng scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students
 zāi zhòng to plant / to grow
 zāi zhí to plant / to transplant
 wū xiàn to entrap / to frame / to plant false evidence against sb
 bìng chóng plant diseases and insect pests
 yǐn zhòng (agriculture) to plant an introduced variety
 yǐn zhǒng (agriculture) to introduce a new plant variety
 rè diàn chǎng thermoelectric power plant
 zhòng to plant / to grow / to cultivate
 ān chā to place in a certain position / to assign to a job / to plant / resettlement (old)
 zhòng shù to plant trees
 guān tíng (of a power plant, refinery etc) to shut down
 yì rén grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yi4 yi3]
 cǎo běn zhí wù herbaceous plant
 zǐ sū beefsteak plant / shiso / Perilla frutescens
 hán xiū cǎo mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)
 mù shǔ cassava, a tropical tuber plant
 huǒ lì fā diàn chǎng fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)
 hé diàn chǎng nuclear power plant
 diào lán hanging orchid (Chlorophytum comosum) / bracket plant
 yì mǐ grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yi4 yi3]
 huáng má jute (Corchorus capsularis Linn.) / plant fiber used for rope or sacks
 màn cǎo creeper / climbing plant / twiner
 bì má castor-oil plant
 shā rén Amomom (fructus Amomi), plant used in Chinese medicine
 zǐ cǎo red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
 cǎo mù huī plant ash
 yín yáng huò Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac / also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to resemble crushed goat's testicles)
 bìng zhū diseased or infected plant
 Tián wān Tianwan in Lianyungang 連雲港|连云港, site of large nuclear power plant
 màn shēng trailing plant / liana / creeper / overgrown
 zǔ zhuāng chǎng assembly plant
 xuǎn méi chǎng coal cleaning plant
 téng běn zhí wù vine plant
 tiáo bō to drill (i.e. plant seeds in spaced rows)
 zhí wù bìng lǐ xué phytopathology / plant pathology
 zhū lóng cǎo tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
 yì yǐ Job's tears plant (Coix lacryma-jobi) / Chinese pearl barley
 chǎng factory / yard / depot / workhouse / works / (industrial) plant
 yān cigarette or pipe tobacco / CL:根[gen1] / smoke / mist / vapour / CL:縷|缕[lu:3] / tobacco plant / (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
 zhí to plant
 lán blue / indigo plant
 lái name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
 chá tea / tea plant / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
 zāi to grow / to plant / to insert / to force on sb / to fall head first
 zhū tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business)
 suǐ marrow / essence / quintessence / pith (soft interior of plant stem)
 zhǐ angelica (type of iris) / plant root used in TCM
 lí name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
 bì the castor-oil plant
 yōng to obstruct / to stop up / to heap soil around the roots of a plant
 cháng plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)
 qiàn Gorgon plant / fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox) / makhana (Hindi)
 chún edible water plant / Brasenia schreberi
 rěn beefsteak plant (Perilla frutescens) / soft / weak
 é zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric
 wù fluorene C13H10 / (old) name of an edible wild plant
 mǎo type of water plant / (dialect) loess hills
 ǎn hole in the ground to plant seeds in / to make a hole for seeds / to dibble
 chǎi aromatic plant, possibly Dahurian angelica 白芷[bai2 zhi3] (archaic)
 gāi roots of plant
 xiào woody climbing plant
 chén fragrant plant / angelica
 jūn species of water plant
 mù běn zhí wù woody plant
 ruò cuticle of bamboo plant
 bá máo lián rú lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom) / fig. also involving others / inextricably tangled together / Invite one and he'll tell all his friends.
 màn shēng zhí wù creeper / climbing plant / twiner
 fán plant similar to coco-grass 莎草[suo1 cao3] (classical)
 luò dì shēng gēn air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
  plant community / phytocoenosis
 chǔ lǐ chǎng treatment plant
 xìng lín forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉[Dong3 Feng4], 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
 zhǒng má female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa)
 huī cài fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
 gǔ kē shù coca plant (source of cocaine)
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