inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes |
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries |
all the plant life in a particular region or period | Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips |
the process of growth in plants | tangled mass of prickly plants |
| a thorny stem or twig |