The plant lacks such permits and acquiring them could be arduous.

Unfortunately, these plants lack the original powerful aroma and are often sterile.

The theory is dismissed by scientists because plants lack a nervous system.

But because the plant lacks the right computer systems for such a consolidation, the conversion effort has hit the operation hard.

This fact means that the plants are spread by conventional vegetative methods and lack sexual reproduction.

Most cultivated plants lack resistance to the disease and efforts to breed in resistance have met with limited success, she said.

Many plants lack perimeter fencing, lights and security guards.

And the plant lacks the robust ways of its blue kin, taking over 10 years to spread some 8 feet.

Conversely, some plants may lack hairs altogether on mature parts.

By January 1946, the plant itself was ready to build trucks but many of the almost 12,000 parts needed to make each one were lacking.