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LIVING ROCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
Synonyms:
living granite; living rock; stone mimicry plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("living rock" is a kind of...):
succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)
Holonyms ("living rock" is a member of...):
genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
Synonyms:
Ariocarpus fissuratus; living rock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("living rock" is a kind of...):
cactus (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)
Holonyms ("living rock" is a member of...):
Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)
