STONECROP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stonecrop mean? 

• STONECROP (noun)
  The noun STONECROP has 1 sense:

1. any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers

  Familiarity information: STONECROP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STONECROP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("stonecrop" is a kind of...):

sedum (any of various plants of the genus Sedum)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stonecrop"):

Sedum acre; wall pepper (mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover)

Holonyms ("stonecrop" is a member of...):

genus Sedum (large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves)