Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several succulent plants of the genus Kalanchoe, often cultivated as houseplants for their fleshy leaves and colorful flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tropical herbs or shrubs belonging to the natural order Crassulaceæ, or orpine family, differing from most other plants of the order by having the calyx 4-parted.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Kalanchoe oftropical ,succulent flowering plants .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I did get a small African violet and a yellow blooming kalanchoe, each for $2.50, though!
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Two are new arrivals, plants that friends brought her when she was in the hospital, having her foot operated on: a kalanchoe and a miniature chrysanthemum.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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My volunteers this year have been arugula, amaranth, purslane, kalanchoe bloss. in red and yellow and a grass (unknown) the original plant of which I dug up from the roadside ( there were loads and it was self seeded, not planted there) I want that muhly grass!
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Many plants also have methods of asexual reproduction (vegetative reproduction), which produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent: root-sprouting (limberbush, palo verde, aspen), stolons and rhizomes (agaves, strawberries, many grasses), and aerial plantlets (some agaves, mother-of-millions, kalanchoe).
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• Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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• Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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• Backdrop low, bushy plants like kalanchoe or Chinese evergreen against tall, spiky plants like dieffenbachia or sansevieria.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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"The bumblebees," she said, pointing to bumblebee topiaries made of yellow kalanchoe and black ornamental peppers.
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"Also avoid sago palm and other members of the cycad family as well as mushrooms, rhododendrons, azaleas, lilies of the valley, oleanders, rosebays, foxgloves and kalanchoe."
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