vegetable sheep

1. 1.

   perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage

   Synonymssheep plantRaoulia lutescensRaoulia australis

   Broaderherb

   Part ofRaoulia
2. 2.

   cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs

   Synonymssheep plantHaastia pulvinaris

   Broaderherb

   Part ofHaastia

Questions about vegetable sheep

What does vegetable sheep mean?

vegetable sheep means "perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for vegetable sheep?

Close synonyms include sheep plant, Raoulia lutescens, Raoulia australis, sheep plant, Haastia pulvinaris. 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 vegetable sheep a common word?

vegetable sheep 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.