stonecrop

Meaning

Noun

  • Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
  • Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae.

Origin

  • stone + crop, from the apparent ability of the plant to grow out of bare rock and stone.

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