Plantification (literary device)

Plantification, also known as Botanification, is a literary device, commonly referred to being the botanical counterpart of a personification comparing, in an abstract way to, humans or objects to the likes of a plant. This is a newer name used as a replacement of botanic personification and vegetal metaphors.
This is a newer literary technique recently developed and was adopted by authors through time such as: Ovid, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf.
Etymology
The word "Plantification" derives from two root words "planta" meaning plant in Latin, and" -ification" comes from "-ficare" which is Latin for "to work" or "to compare".
Examples
Sentence Examples:
Her hair grew like "ivy", tangling around her shoulders.
He "rooted" himself to the spot, unable to move.
Literary Examples:
Ovid, Metamorphosis: "A thin bark closed across her gentle bosom, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, Her feet, So swift before, stuck fast into the ground, And her head became a treetop."
William Shakespeare, Macbeth: "I have begun to plant thee, And will labour, To make thee full of growing." (Act 1, Scene 4)
Emily Dickinson, Poem 1400: "The pedigree of honey, Does not concern the bee, A clover, any time to him Is aristocracy."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves: "I am rooted but I flow."

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