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Plantation of Ulster
Plantation of Ulster: organized settlement of confiscated Ulster land with English and Scottish Protestant colonists under James I from 1609, following the 1607 Flight of the Earls, across Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.
Plantation, Florida
Plantation, Florida: a Broward County city incorporated April 30, 1953, founded by Frederick C. Peters on 10,000 acres; 91,750 residents in 2020, strong-mayor government, Gateway/Midtown/Technology Park business districts.
Plantations of Ireland
The Plantations of Ireland were English and British state schemes of land confiscation and settlement from the 1550s to the 1690s, including Laois-Offaly (1556), Munster (1580s), Ulster (1609), the Cromwellian settlement (1652), and the Williamite confiscations.
PlantBottle
PlantBottle is a PET plastic beverage bottle introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 2009, in which up to 30 percent of the petroleum-based plastic comes from sugarcane and other plants.
PlantEye
PlantEye is a multispectral 3D laser scanner for plant phenotyping made by Phenospex of Heerlen, the Netherlands, which measures plant height, leaf area, and biomass non-destructively in greenhouses and fields.
Plantin-Moretus Museum
The Plantin-Moretus Museum, also called Museum Plantin-Moretus, is in Antwerp, Belgium, in the printing house where the Plantin and Moretus family worked from 1576 until the 1860s.
Plantower PMS5003
The Plantower PMS5003 is a low-cost digital particulate matter sensor made by Plantower Technology in Nanchang, China, using laser light scattering to measure PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10.
Plants in Literature
Plants in literature: the study and cataloguing of plant references, symbolism, and narrative roles in written works, from the Shi-Jin and Shakespeare to Victorian fiction and ecocritical plant studies.
Plants in space
Plants in space are plants grown aboard spacecraft and space stations to study how spaceflight affects plant biology and test whether crops can supplement astronaut diets on long missions.
Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies (PvZ) is a 2009 PopCap tower defense game by George Fan: plants bought with sun defend a house from zombie waves. iPhone launch sold 300,000 copies in nine days; Replanted remaster arrived 2025.
Plants vs. Zombies 3: Evolved
Plants vs. Zombies 3: Evolved (PvZ3E) is PopCap/EA's reworked mobile tower defense game, built on plant-merging fusions borrowed from a fan mod, in Early Access in Ireland and the Philippines after earlier PvZ3 versions were scrapped in 2020 and 2024.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is PopCap's 2014 class-based third-person shooter on Frostbite 3, with four plant and four zombie classes, Garden Ops co-op, and 12v12 Gardens & Graveyards and Team Vanquish modes.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 (PvZGW2) is PopCap and EA's third-person shooter, released February 23, 2016 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, with 14 classes, 100+ characters, Backyard Battleground hub, Herbal Assault, and Metacritic 82.
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a 2025 remaster of the 2009 tower defense game, by PopCap Games and The Lost Pixels, published by EA for PC and consoles. It adds co-op, PvP, and new modes; launch criticism centered on missing dynamic audio and AI-art allegations.
Planula
Planula: the ciliated, ovoid free-swimming larva of cnidarians (corals, anemones, jellyfish), also called planula larva. Develops from a fertilized egg, settles, and metamorphoses into a polyp; lost in Hydra.
Planum Angustum
Planum Angustum is a named plain (planum) on Mars, mapped near the planet's Southern Polar Circle and listed among regions of the USGS MOLA-based Topographic Map of Mars.
Planum Australe
Planum Australe is the layered ice and dust plateau forming Mars's south polar region, where 2018 radar soundings were interpreted as a possible subglacial liquid water lake.
Planum Boreum
Planum Boreum is the roughly circular north polar plateau of Mars, a water-ice dome rising 3 to 4 km above the northern plains and hosting the north polar ice cap.
Planum Chronium
Planum Chronium is a Martian plain, approved by the IAU in 1985. It is located in the southern hemisphere at 59° S latitude and 139.5° E longitude.
Plaque brachytherapy
Plaque brachytherapy is a radiation therapy technique in which a radioactive plaque is sutured to the sclera to deliver a localized dose to an intraocular tumor, most often uveal melanoma.
Plaque psoriasis
Plaque psoriasis, also known as psoriasis vulgaris, is a chronic inflammatory skin disease causing red, scaly patches, accounting for 80% to 90% of psoriasis cases worldwide.
Plaque radiotherapy
Plaque radiotherapy is a brachytherapy technique in which a radioactive plaque is sutured to the sclera over an intraocular tumor, mainly to treat uveal melanoma.
Plaque reduction neutralization test
The plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is a live-virus cell-culture assay measuring neutralizing antibodies, considered the laboratory standard and the WHO gold standard for dengue.
Plaque: Equestrian Oba and Attendants
Plaque: Equestrian Oba and Attendants is a 16th-century cast-brass relief from Benin showing a Benin king on horseback, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
PlaqueBoyMax
PlaqueBoyMax, real name Maxwell Elliot Dent (born 2003, West Orange, New Jersey), is an American Twitch streamer, rapper, and producer behind Song Wars and In the Booth, a FaZe Clan alumnus, and the first Twitch streamer nominated for a Grammy, for "Victory Lap" with Fred again.. and Skepta.
Plaquemines LNG Terminal
Plaquemines LNG Terminal is a Venture Global liquefied natural gas export facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, about 20 miles south of New Orleans, that shipped its first cargo in December 2024.
Plaquemines Parish John Doe
Plaquemines Parish John Doe (Doe Network 3832UMLA, NamUs UP88342) is an unidentified teenager found hanged February 14, 1975 near Belle Chasse, Louisiana, whose suicide note asked to stay unidentified; his remains and records were later lost.
Plaskett (lunar crater)
Plaskett is a large lunar impact crater near the Moon's north pole on the edge of Luna Incognita, about 109-114 km across, a complex crater with a ~2000 m central peak, named for Canadian astronomer John Stanley Plaskett (IAU 1976).
Plaskett's Star
Plaskett's Star is a massive O-type spectroscopic binary in Monoceros with two O stars orbiting every 14.4 days; John Stanley Plaskett found its enormous mass in 1922.
Plasma (drag queen)
Plasma is the stage name of Taylor Ratliff (born 1998, Austin, Texas), an American drag queen, actor, and singer with a University of Oklahoma BFA. She competed on RuPaul's Drag Race season 16, placed 8th with two challenge wins, and released the live album Is Miss Thing On? in 2025.