tortoise plant

Questions about tortoise plant

What does tortoise plant mean?

tortoise plant means "South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark".

What is another word for tortoise plant?

Close synonyms include elephant's-foot, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes. 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 tortoise plant a common word?

tortoise plant 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.