If it's a native plant, then why are they manufacturing a synthetic replacement?

Beneath the flesh, he felt, or perhaps he imagined, that some of the organs under his fingers had the hard, unyielding texture of cheap synthetic replacements.

The advent of synthetic replacements to wool after World War II battered the sector, further decimated by Argentina's political instability and natural disasters.

A synthetic replacement for elephant ivory, which has been commonly used to mount and decorate many kinds of bagpipe.

Hansa yellow is not a modern synthetic replacement for cadmium yellow.

Traditional acrylic fiber is used more often as a synthetic replacement for wool.

A synthetic replacement for the heart remains one of the long-sought holy grails of modern medicine.

My God, she thought, they don't even have regeneration or synthetic replacements!

Many aircraft tires and inner tubes are still made of natural rubber due to the high cost of certification for aircraft use of synthetic replacements.