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    YOUTH-ON-AGE

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     I. (noun) 

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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 leafstalkplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("youth-on-age" 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 ("youth-on-age" is a member of...):

    genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea (one species: pickaback plant)

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