Citations:planty

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English citations of planty

plant-related; vegetal
  • 1952, Congrès pour l'avancement des études de stratigraphie et de géologie du carbonifère. 3d, Compte rendu: publié sous la rédaction du Geologisch bureau Heerlen, page 516:
    [] macerated vegetable matter [] Such planty material is common and widely distributed in most members of the rhythmic sequence except the more purely marine beds and some of the beds containing non-marine lamellibranchs.
  • 2012 November 8, Emma Fischel, The Gorgle, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 36:
    It was perched on a clump of big spreading planty things with fat green leaves. But was that really the moth thing? I crept out of the barn door, and peered round the side. I had to make sure I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing. I was. The moth thing was double the []
  • 2020 September 17, Imogen Russell Williams, The Ladybird Big Book of Slimy Things, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
    THERE ARE MORE SLIPPERY, SLIMY, PLANTY THINGS IN THE GARDEN
  • 2021 September 7, Angélique Lalonde, Glorious Frazzled Beings, House of Anansi, →ISBN:
    [] pops of iron amdist otherwise planty things. Old ladies with grey hair wearing wool blanket wraps, mashing her with crooked canes carved into the shapes of the animal spirits that were meant to protect her. Voracious men who wrecked her body and left her naked []
  • 2021 November 23, Sabina Palermo, Hi Cacti: Growing Houseplants & Happiness, Leaping Hare Press, →ISBN, page 86:
    Many of us have a windowless space or room where we would love to add a planty pick-me-up or some greenery either for the wellbeing benefits or for the aesthetics. [] HARDCORE PLANTS – Peace Lilies have a great reputation for being able to survive in windowless bathrooms []
plant-associated; tending to care for or use plants
  • 2009, Paul Lawrence Farber, Hamilton Cravens, Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America:
    [] "planty" people (I hesitate to call them all "botanists" since many only used plants for utilitarian ends) []
plant-centric; from or based in plants' perspective
  • 2016 December 1, Michelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma Roe, Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 100:
    Can we imagine from a more plant-centred perspective what plants might seek from participatory research? [] In planty terms, flourishing might suggest allowing plants space to grow and reproduce without always having to serve []
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  • 2020 April 9, Irene Selsvold, Lewis Webb, Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology, Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 80:
    [] plants, and without considering these plants as beings, such activities are hard to explore (Lodwick 2019). Through applying a planty agency approach to the study of weed seeds, the first case study seeks to illuminate aspects of the []