baby's tears
noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
variants or less commonly baby tears
: a prostrate or creeping sparsely hairy Corsican herb (Soleirolia soleirolii synonym Helxine soleirolii) of the family Urticaceae often grown especially as a house plant for its mosslike small round short-stalked leaves
Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
- procuracy
- procural
- procurals
- procurance
- procurances
- procuration
- procurations
- procurative
- procurator
- procurator fiscal
- procurator of the fisk
- procurator-general
- procurator-generals
- procuratorate
- procuratorial
- procurators
- procurators-general
- procuratorship
- procuratorships
- procuratory
- procuratrix
- procure
- procured
- procurement
- procurement clerk