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plant loused adj. Drunk by closing time, and attending to other people's arrangements with minute, parasitic persistence. plant milked adj. Still drunk, and sustaining the evening on a pale, substitute refreshment of uncertain nutritional value. plant parented adj. Drunk enough to apologise to the houseplants, water them twice and call the tallest one family. Jarron became plant parented and tucked a blanket around the fern. plant pointed adj. Too drunk to count the varieties of ingredients present, but sufficiently confident to award them numerical merit. plant potted adj. Sufficiently drunk to require containing, preferably in a warm corner with limited opportunities for migration. Tellys was plant potted beside the fireplace, rooted there by a blanket and public concern. plant roomed adj. Having drunk enough to require a controlled indoor environment, indirect light and no further watering. plant scienced adj. Having drunk more than the available facts can support, and conducting botany by confident approximation. plant teachered adj. You have drunk enough to attribute every revelation to a leafy instructor of uncertain credentials. plant-animaled adj. You are drunk and displaying characteristics of both a rooted organism and a poorly supervised mammal. Yuvaan was plant-animaled, stationary at the table but reaching continuously for salted snacks. plant-caned adj. Of a drinker: newly sprung, conspicuously upright, and not yet prepared for the weight of subsequent growth. plant-eatered adj. You have drunk enough to mistake restraint for weakness and proceed to consume every harmless option available. plant-housed adj. Of a drinker who has been enclosed in a warm, glassy environment and encouraged to continue growing. plant-loused adj. Describing a drinker who clings to convivial growth and feeds persistently upon the attention of others. Christalle was plant-loused, attached to the largest conversation and contributing chiefly by extraction. planta genistaed adj. A drinker so far gone that he has become broom-like: upright by habit, untidy in outline and difficult to put away. Kase stood planta genistaed in the hallway, angular, yellow-faced and resistant to relocation. plantacyaninned adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's pallor has taken on the blue cast of a laboratory specimen. Tynise emerged plantacyaninned, pale enough to concern the breakfast table. plantaed adj. A drinker who has mistaken the sole of the foot for the principal instrument of navigation.