plant material

1. 1.

   material derived from plants

   Synonymsplant substance

   Broadermaterial

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Questions about plant material

What does plant material mean?

plant material means "material derived from plants".

What is another word for plant material?

Close synonyms include plant substance. 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 material a common word?

plant material 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.