plant hormone

1. 1.

   (botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone

   Synonymsphytohormonegrowth regulator

   Broaderplant product

   Narrowerauxingibberellinkinin

   botany

Questions about plant hormone

What does plant hormone mean?

plant hormone means "(botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone".

What is another word for plant hormone?

Close synonyms include phytohormone, growth regulator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plant hormone a common word?

plant hormone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.