Sentence examples for plants meaning from inspiring English sources

A $200bn LED market could mean about 100 less fossil fuel plants, meaning LED lighting could play a key role in decarbonising the global economy because of its energy savings.

They also visit more plants, meaning much more effective cross-pollination than honeybees, which tend to carry pollen from one flower to another on the same plant.

The major manufacturers have already announced plans to go forward with new chip plants, meaning that a greater supply of chips should be available by 2012.

Now, when DNA data are used to build an evolutionary tree of the plants, they show that orchids branch off fairly early, the first among the Asparagales plants, meaning they are the oldest in that group.

Many species in the family are C4 plants, meaning they photosynthesize with a special mechanism of carbon fixation; the family represents the largest collection of plants with that photosynthetic pathway.

One reason is that Genzyme has got into trouble with the American regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, for manufacturing-quality problems at one of its plants, meaning it has costly rejigging to do; any new owner may be stuck with massive legal liabilities.

Labor investigators say not paying for donning and doffing could cost the nation's 174 poultry plants about $2 million per plant, meaning about $348 million in back wages owed.

"We did it under budget, under dose and under days," said Joseph P. Cox, who schedules engineering work at the plant, meaning that money, radiation exposure and time are all carefully watched.

Plus, there's no way to weigh the vegetables when they're still attached to the plant, meaning that growers have to estimate their size based on circumference – which doesn't always prove the most accurate.

Aside from destroying biodiversity, tree plantations have dried up river catchments, caused soil erosion when the land is ploughed for planting (meaning loss of soil carbon), exhausted nutrients and required so many pesticides that the run-off has poisoned marine fisheries.

In addition, a finite number of resources is available for the construction of an adult animal or plant, meaning that not all parts can be accentuated indefinitely without compromising the function of other parts.