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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 leafstalk
Familiarity information: PICKABACK PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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