MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother-of-thousands mean? 

• MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS (noun)
  The noun MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS has 1 sense:

1. eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons

  Familiarity information: MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga sarmentosam; Saxifraga stolonifera; strawberry geranium; strawberry saxifrage

Hypernyms ("mother-of-thousands" is a kind of...):

breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)

Holonyms ("mother-of-thousands" is a member of...):

genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)