Monkey Grass

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by Bruce Nutting

Title

Monkey Grass

Artist

Bruce Nutting

Medium

Painting - Digital

Description

NOUN
1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
2. an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.
3. a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
4. the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business:
a manufacturing plant.
5. the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation: the heating plant for a home.
6. the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution: the sprawling plant of the university.
7. Slang. something intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals.

VERB (used with object)
12. to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, young trees, etc.
13. to furnish or stock (land) with plants: to plant a section with corn.
14. to establish or implant (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.): to plant a love for learning in growing children.
15. to introduce (a breed of ) into a country.
16. to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc.
17. to bed (oysters).
18. to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface: to plant posts along a road.

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May 20th, 2015