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Definition of Burn plant
1. Noun. Very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burn Plant
Literary usage of Burn plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in the Forests of the Far East: Or, Travels in Northern Borneo by Spenser St. John (1863)
"So Si Jura made a hearty meal, and after eating Si Kira gave him seed of three
kinds of rice, instructed him how to cut down the forest, burn, plant, weed, ..."
2. Visions of a Better City: Selected Papers, 1984-1990 by Edward A. Schwartz (1991)
"In an exchange between Barry Commoner's Center for the Biology of Natural Systems
and Fred D. Hart Associates over a proposed mass burn plant at the ..."
3. First Principles of Agriculture by Emmett Stull Goff, Dexter Dwight Mayne (1904)
"When we burn plant or animal substance, the ashes show merely the part that came
from the soil. The rest came from the air. Carbonic acid and water are ..."
4. Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor (1870)
"... instructed him how to cut down the forest, burn, plant, weed, and reap, take
omens from birds, and celebrate harvest feasts; and then, by a long rope, ..."
5. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... we examined both the immediate effects and the postfire response of individual
species following a June burn. Plant composition and biomass data were ..."
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