| 单词 | living stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliving stone living stone n. any of the small succulent plants of the genus Lithops (family Aizoaceae), native to southern Africa and cultivated as houseplants, having a pair of typically greyish leaves resembling stones, borne on a highly reduced stem, with white or yellow daisy-like flowers which emerge from a cleft between the leaves; also called lithops, pebble plant. ΚΠ 1930 Jrnl. Cactus & Succulent Soc. Amer. 1 206 (heading) More ‘living stones’ Lapidaria dinteranthus—riimariai. 1979 Observer 18 Feb. 42/9 Seeds of plants from all over the world are offered—from climbing spinach to..lithops (living stones) from Africa. 2005 J. Silvertown Demons in Eden i. 2 Bright flowers issue from the cleft in the living stones to claim their fifteen minutes of conspicuous fame. < as lemmas |
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