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hen-and-chickens

[ hen-uhn-chik-uhnz ]

noun

, plural hens-and-chickens.
  1. any of several succulent plants that grow in clusters or colonies formed by runners or offshoots, as those of the genera Echeveria and Sempervivum.


hen-and-chickens

noun

  1. functioning as singular or plural any of several plants, such as the houseleek and ground ivy, that produce many offsets or runners
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hen-and-chickens1

First recorded in 1785–95
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Example Sentences

On the uplands the grass would be strewn with buttercups, with hen-and-chickens, with black-centered yellow violets.

Owing to their habit of producing a circle of young plants around the parent, they are commonly called "hen-and-chickens."

Blooming somewhat earlier than the "hen-and-chickens," but in similar situations, the stonecrop often clothes rock-masses with beautiful color.

The sterile bracts of the daisy occasionally produce capitula, and give rise to the hen-and-chickens daisy.

This hen-and-chickens kind of thinking led the Germans into a disastrous war under the leadership of an articulate, power-mad Hitler.

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