MOTHER-OF-THOUSANDS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons

Synonyms:

mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga sarmentosam; Saxifraga stolonifera; strawberry geranium; strawberry saxifrage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mother-of-thousands" is a kind of...):

breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)

Holonyms ("mother-of-thousands" is a member of...):

genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)

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