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plant material

n. material derived from plants

Usage examples of "plant material".

There are swampy, boggy areas where decaying plant material can be dug up and dried out to be used as fuel.

Millipedes prefer to feed on decaying plant material and are industrious recyclers.

Up-timers will probably first try a simple hot water treatment of chopped-up plant material.

While the supply of plant material on land and in the sea was pretty reliable in space and time, freshwater environments were very variable.

It is choked, bank to bank, with floating debris: some plant material but mostly old mattresses, cushions, pieces of plastic litter, hunks of foam, and, most of all, plastic shopping bags in various bright colors.

Cooper continued his examination and found that two of the adhesive squares revealed a minuscule bit of dirt and some plant material.

She reached into her pocket and withdrew a plastic bag of the plant material she'd found at the scene.

It was, like a lot on this world, made from some kind of thick, hard plant material, possibly bark.

The room's back wall was plant material, a vast plane of root plunging toward water flowing in the depths of the earth.

Huge volumes of plant material flow through them like a river, all the day long.

The surface of the water boiled and churned, full of tiny particles of wood and plant material dancing hysterically around them.

God knows how long you were lying here in the rain and torn plant material, unconscious, wounds open to every killer microbe that wants to get in.

The comet trajectories were routed through the gaps in the plant material.