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resurrection plant definition

☆ resurrection plant

  1. any of various small plants which curl up when dry and spread their branches or become green again when watered, including several lycopods (genus Selaginella)
  2. rose of Jericho

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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