植 物 zhí wù plant / vegetation / CL:種|种[zhong3] 种 植 zhòng zhí to plant / to grow (a crop) / to cultivate 株 tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business) 底 线 dǐ xiàn bottom line / the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy / informer / plant 植 株 zhí zhū plant (horticulture) 栽 种 zāi zhòng to plant / to grow 栽 植 zāi zhí to plant / to transplant 种 to plant / to grow / to cultivate 安 插 ān chā to place in a certain position / to assign to a job / to plant / resettlement (old) 厂 factory / yard / depot / workhouse / works / (industrial) plant 植 to plant 栽 to grow / to plant / to insert / to force on sb / to fall head first 脂 肪 zhī fáng fat (in the body, in a plant, or in food) 加 工 厂 jiā gōng chǎng processing plant 电 厂 diàn chǎng electric power plant 电 站 diàn zhàn a power station / an electricity generating plant 制 造 厂 zhì zào chǎng manufacturing plant / factory 玉 女 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 化 工 厂 huà gōng chǎng chemical factory / chemical plant 茂 密 mào mì dense (of plant growth) / lush 植 树 zhí shù to plant trees 病 虫 害 bìng chóng hài plant diseases and insect pests 植 被 zhí bèi vegetation / plant cover 水 电 站 shuǐ diàn zhàn hydroelectric power plant 脉 络 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 发 电 厂 fā diàn chǎng power plant 封 顶 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) 苗 圃 miáo pǔ plant nursery / seedbed 厂 区 plant site 病 害 bìng hài plant disease 核 电 站 hé diàn zhàn nuclear power plant 花 枝 huā zhī spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms) / cuttlefish (on dining menus) / (literary) beautiful woman 学 名 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 诬 陷 wū xiàn to entrap / to frame / to plant false evidence against sb 病 虫 bìng chóng plant diseases and insect pests 引 种 yǐn zhòng (agriculture) to plant an introduced variety 引 种 yǐn zhǒng (agriculture) to introduce a new plant variety 热 电 厂 rè diàn chǎng thermoelectric power plant 种 树 zhòng shù to plant trees 关 停 guān tíng (of a power plant, refinery etc) to shut down 薏 仁 yì rén grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yi4 yi3] 草 本 植 物 cǎo běn zhí wù herbaceous plant 紫 苏 zǐ sū beefsteak plant / shiso / Perilla frutescens 含 羞 草 hán xiū cǎo mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched) 木 薯 mù shǔ cassava, a tropical tuber plant 火 力 发 电 厂 huǒ lì fā diàn chǎng fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas) 核 电 厂 hé diàn chǎng nuclear power plant 吊 兰 diào lán hanging orchid (Chlorophytum comosum) / bracket plant 薏 米 yì mǐ grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yi4 yi3] 黄 麻 huáng má jute (Corchorus capsularis Linn.) / plant fiber used for rope or sacks 蔓 草 màn cǎo creeper / climbing plant / twiner 蓖 麻 bì má castor-oil plant 砂 仁 shā rén Amomom (fructus Amomi), plant used in Chinese medicine 紫 草 zǐ cǎo red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) 草 木 灰 cǎo mù huī plant ash 淫 羊 藿 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) 病 株 bìng zhū diseased or infected plant 田 湾 Tián wān Tianwan in Lianyungang 連雲港|连云港, site of large nuclear power plant 蔓 生 màn shēng trailing plant / liana / creeper / overgrown 组 装 厂 zǔ zhuāng chǎng assembly plant 选 煤 厂 xuǎn méi chǎng coal cleaning plant 藤 本 植 物 téng běn zhí wù vine plant 条 播 tiáo bō to drill (i.e. plant seeds in spaced rows) 植 物 病 理 学 zhí wù bìng lǐ xué phytopathology / plant pathology 猪 笼 草 zhū lóng cǎo tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes) 薏 苡 yì yǐ Job's tears plant (Coix lacryma-jobi) / Chinese pearl barley 烟 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 蓝 blue / indigo plant 莱 name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album 茶 tea / tea plant / CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2] 髓 marrow / essence / quintessence / pith (soft interior of plant stem) 芷 angelica (type of iris) / plant root used in TCM 藜 name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album 蓖 the castor-oil plant 壅 to obstruct / to stop up / to heap soil around the roots of a plant 苌 plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) 芡 Gorgon plant / fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox) / makhana (Hindi) 莼 edible water plant / Brasenia schreberi 荏 beefsteak plant (Perilla frutescens) / soft / weak 莪 zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric 芴 fluorene C13H10 / (old) name of an edible wild plant 茆 type of water plant / (dialect) loess hills 埯 hole in the ground to plant seeds in / to make a hole for seeds / to dibble 茝 aromatic plant, possibly Dahurian angelica 白芷[bai2 zhi3] (archaic) 荄 roots of plant 薢 woody climbing plant 茞 fragrant plant / angelica 莙 species of water plant 木 本 植 物 mù běn zhí wù woody plant 篛 cuticle of bamboo plant 拔 毛 连 茹 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. 蔓 生 植 物 màn shēng zhí wù creeper / climbing plant / twiner 薠 plant similar to coco-grass 莎草[suo1 cao3] (classical) 落 地 生 根 luò dì shēng gēn air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots 植 物 群 落 plant community / phytocoenosis 处 理 厂 chǔ lǐ chǎng treatment plant 杏 林 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) 种 麻 zhǒng má female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) 灰 菜 huī cài fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant 古 柯 树 gǔ kē shù coca plant (source of cocaine)
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