STONE MIMICRY PLANT

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("stone mimicry plant" is a kind of...):

succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)

Holonyms ("stone mimicry plant" is a member of...):

genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)