8 sentences with 'plants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plants and other words derived from it.
• « Confucius advised fumigating the body and the atmosphere with plants to avoid epidemics; if the earth turned yellow, mulberry was used for this purpose. »
• « The Chinese Shen Nong investigated more than one hundred exotic plants and for the discoveries he made he was called the King of Remedies. »
• « According to the old customs, in order to prepare remedies, the plants are carefully selected according to where they grow and then determine which part to use: the flower, the fruit, the bark or the root. »
• « Among the plants most commonly used in Chinese medicine is mugwort, the basis of moxa treatment, a healing and tonic plant. »
• « Unknown to anyone at the time, during the 1850s and 1860s an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel conducted a series of experiments on pea plants in his monastery garden and, in the process, discovered the basic principles of genetics. Mendel first presented his work in 1865, but it was completely forgotten. »
• « Too modest to consider himself a gardener, grandfather saw himself only as the guardian of his plants. They, like him, were tenacious and hardy. »
• « The essential make-up of plankton consists of a multitude of animals and plants of varying sizes, which is why scientists have divided them into three groups: macroplankton, visible to the naked eye; microplankton, made up of microscopic individuals; and mesoplankton, the intermediate group. »
• « The hydroponics method consists of removing plants from their natural habitat - the soil - and growing them in sterile substrates, such as sawdust, gravel, peat, ground glass, mineral wool, rice husks or air, and supplying their roots with a nutrient liquid, which can be drained off once the plant has finished feeding. »