PLANT PRODUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plant product mean? 

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

1. a product made from plant material

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANT PRODUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A product made from plant material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

plant material; plant substance (material derived from plants)

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

coca (dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect)

baccy; tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion)

ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)

growth regulator; phytohormone; plant hormone ((botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone)

furfural; furfuraldehyde (a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent)

natural resin (a plant exudate)

plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)

saccharose; sucrose (a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent)

 Context examples 

A natural or synthetic substance, such as a drug, vitamin, hormone, plant product or food supplement, that may reduce the risk of developing or recurrence of tumor formation.

(Chemopreventive Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of antineoplastic plant product.

(Bardoxolone, NCI Dictionary)

A sesquiterpene lactone peroxide and dimerized plant product derived from Artemisia annua L with anti-malarial, anti-proliferative and anti-angiogenic effects.

(Artemisinin Dimer, NCI Thesaurus)