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STONE MIMICRY PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stone mimicry plant mean?
• STONE MIMICRY PLANT (noun)
The noun STONE MIMICRY PLANT has 1 sense:
1. highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
Familiarity information: STONE MIMICRY PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
living granite; living rock; stone mimicry plant
Hypernyms ("stone mimicry plant" is a kind of...):
succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)
Holonyms ("stone mimicry plant" is a member of...):
genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)
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