Library / English Dictionary |
STONECROP
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (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:
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)