tender plant

collocation in English

meaningsoftenderandplant

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tender
adjective
uk
/ˈten.dər/
us
/ˈten.dɚ/
gentle, loving, ...
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plant
noun
uk
/plɑːnt/
us
/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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(Definition oftenderandplantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Above all, this latest package has been a cruel blow to thetenderplantof revived industrial confidence.
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This is a verytenderplantwhich all too easily could be destroyed.
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Peace is a verytenderplant, and will not grow in an atmosphere of injustice.
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This tendency, this tremendous desire, for normality and recovery, is atenderplant.
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Confidence is atenderplant, and confidence, once wilted, is very difficult to revive.
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It may be atenderplantin some countries, but it is a plant which they revere considerably.
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Confidence is a verytenderplant, and without it there can be no growth.
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That in turn rests on confidence to sustain the reputation for fairness; and confidence is atenderplant.
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But democracy is still a young andtenderplant.
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I believe that this is rather atenderplant.
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It was, therefore, a verytenderplantnewly sprung up which needed most careful culturing.
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But this is a verytenderplantwhich will need a lot of nurturing and attention from both sides.
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It was a slow growth and atenderplantwhich could easily be blasted; and it has been blasted by 100,000 unemployed in two months.
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It is very hard to define it and to put it into words, and it is atenderplant.
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It is a verytenderplant; it is easily discouraged; and it is very hard to start it growing again if it has been neglected.
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It has done harm to race relations, which is atenderplantdifficult to understand.
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It will be a great blow to thetenderplantof democracy in those countries.
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After all, industry is a verytenderplant.
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That was the basis of the tentative scheme, of thetenderplantwhich we were doing what we could to cultivate.
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Government by consent is a much moretenderplantthan we often think.
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