piggyback plant

noun

A plant native to moist forests near the coast of northwestern North America, Tolmiea menziesii, grown as an ornamental groundcover or container plant for its attractive green foliage with plantlets growing from the bases of the leaves.

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youth-on-agethousand motherspickaback plantTolmiea menziesii
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Meanings

nounpiggyback plant (plural piggyback plants)

plural piggyback plants

  1. A plant native to moist forests near the coast of northwestern North America, Tolmiea menziesii, grown as an ornamental groundcover or container plant for its attractive green foliage with plantlets growing from the bases of the leaves.

    Synonyms: youth-on-age, thousand mothers

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA plant native to moist forests near the coast of northwestern North America, Tolmiea menziesii, grown as an ornamental groundcover or container plant for its attractive green foliage with plantlets growing from the bases of the leaves.

Similar
youth-on-agethousand mothers

More synonyms by meaning

nounvigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk

Similar
pickaback plantyouth-on-ageTolmiea menziesii
Broader
herbherbaceous plant
Also see
youth-on-age

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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