Sentence:  Swadesh , and therefore Hoijer , felt compelled to omit all terms denoting species or even genera ( fox , vulture , salmon , yellow pine , manzanita ) ; their classes of animal and <WSD>plant</WSD> terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish , bird , tree , grass , horn , tail , bark , root ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion