TOLMIEA MENZIESII

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

pickaback plant; piggyback plant; Tolmiea menziesii; youth-on-age

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tolmiea menziesii" 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 ("Tolmiea menziesii" is a member of...):

genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea (one species: pickaback plant)

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