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Dead plant, includes a reference to a plant which is frozen, dried or preserved by chemicals, or which, although for any reason not complete, is substantially complete and externally substantially resembles a complete dead plant of the kind concerned. Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act, 1976, s. 12(3) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 866, p. 514...
Plant
Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 Pat LJR 868.Plant, has frequently been used in fiscal and other legislation. It is one of a fairly large category of words as to which no statutory definition is provided ('trade', office even 'income' are others), so that it is left to the court to interpret them. It naturally happens that as case follows case, and one extension leads to another, the meaning of the word gradually diverges from its natural or dictionary meaning. This is certainly true for plant, I.R.C. v. Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd., (1982) 1 WLR 322: (1982) 2 All ER 230: 55 TC 252 (HL).Plant, in the relevant sense, although admitted not a term of art, and therefore part of the general English tongue, is not, in this sense, an ordinary word, but one of imprecise application, an...
Hysterophyte
A plant like the fungus which lives on dead or living organic matter...
Belladonna
An herbaceous European plant Atropa belladonna with reddish bell shaped flowers and shining black berries The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains Called also deadly nightshade...
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