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hen-and-chickens
[ hen-uhn-chik-uhnz ]
noun
- 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
- functioning as singular or plural any of several plants, such as the houseleek and ground ivy, that produce many offsets or runners
Word History and Origins
Origin of hen-and-chickens1
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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