flowering stone

Questions about flowering stone

What does flowering stone mean?

flowering stone means "any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones".

What is another word for flowering stone?

Close synonyms include lithops, living stone, stoneface, stone-face, stone plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flowering stone a common word?

flowering stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.