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PICKABACK PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pickaback plant mean? 

PICKABACK PLANT (noun)
  The noun PICKABACK PLANT has 1 sense:

1. vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalkplay

  Familiarity information: PICKABACK PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PICKABACK PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pickaback plant; piggyback plant; Tolmiea menziesii; youth-on-age

Hypernyms ("pickaback plant" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("pickaback plant" is a member of...):

genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea (one species: pickaback plant)


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