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hen-and-chickens

hen-and-chick·ens (plural hen-and-chick·ens or hens-and-chick·ens)


noun 
Definition:
 
plant whose shoots form new plants: a plant, especially the houseleek, that produces new plants as offsets that grow at the end of horizontal shoots or runners from the main plant

[< the resemblance to chicks surrounding the mother hen]
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