ROCK PLANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rock plant" is a kind of...):

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rock plant"):

lithophyte; lithophytic plant (plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere)

rupestral plant; rupestrine plant; rupicolous plant; saxicolous plant (plants growing among rocks)

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