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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii uncountable

   "Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple."

2. 2
   vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

piggyback planthedge nettlepickaback plantthousand motherstolmiea menziesii

Example

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"Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple."

Etymology

From the way young plantlets sprout from the middle of older leaves.

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