PLANT HORMONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant hormone mean? 

• PLANT HORMONE (noun)
  The noun PLANT HORMONE has 1 sense:

1. (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone

  Familiarity information: PLANT HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT HORMONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

growth regulator; phytohormone; plant hormone

Hypernyms ("plant hormone" is a kind of...):

plant product (a product made from plant material)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant hormone"):

auxin (a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth)

gibberellin (a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth)

cytokinin; kinin (any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves)