youth-on-age

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

youth-on-age
    n 1: vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and
         having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade
         and the leafstalk [syn: {pickaback plant}, {piggyback
         plant}, {youth-on-age}, {Tolmiea menziesii}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

youth-on-age \youth`-on-age"\ n. (Bot.)
   A vigorous perennial herb ({Tolmiea menziesii}) with flowers
   in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the
   junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk.

   Syn: pickaback plant, piggyback plant.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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