plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.
timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst†, frith†, holt,
weald†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage†,
tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood;
scrub; boscage, bosk†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum &c
371.
bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze,
gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary†; sedge, rush,
weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva†, mold;
growth; alfalfa, alfilaria†, banyan; blow, blowth†; floret†, petiole; pin
grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
foliage, branch, bough, ramage†, stem, tigella†; spray &c 51; leaf.
flower, blossom, bine†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree;
pulse, legume.
Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive†, vegitous†; herbaceous, herbal;
botanic†; sylvan, silvan†; arborary†, arboreous†, arborescent†,
arborical†; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous†,
ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky†, cespitose†, turf-like, turfy;
endogenous, exogenous.
Phr. green-robed senators of mighty woods [Keats]; this is the forest
primeval [Longfellow].