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youth-on-age

youth-on-age noun: a perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii.

youth-on-age: a perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
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Noun

youth-on-age (uncountable)

  1. A perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
    • Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132
    Synonyms:
    hedge nettle, piggyback plant, thousand mothers

Synonyms of youth-on-age

Origin of youth-on-age

From the way young plantlets sprout from the middle of older leaves.

Questions about youth-on-age

What does youth-on-age mean?
Youth-on-age means a perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii.
What part of speech is youth-on-age?
Youth-on-age is a noun.

Words near youth-on-age in the dictionary

  1. youth organizations
  2. youth work
  3. youth worker
  4. youth workers
  5. youth-centric
  6. youth-on-age
  7. youthe
  8. youthemism
  9. youthemisms
  10. youthen
  11. youthened

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