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ROCK PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rock plant mean?
• ROCK PLANT (noun)
The noun ROCK PLANT has 1 sense:
1. plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden
Familiarity information: ROCK PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("rock plant" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rock plant"):
lithophyte; lithophytic plant (plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere)
rupestral plant; rupestrine plant; rupicolous plant; saxicolous plant (plants growing among rocks)
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