Meanings
- uncountableA perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.
1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132Synonyms: hedge nettle, piggyback plant, thousand mothers
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From the way young plantlets sprout from the middle of older leaves.
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