A New Zealand plant of the daisy family, which has greyish hairy leaves and forms hummocks which look like sheep from a distance.
绵羊菊
Raoulia eximia, family Compositae
Example sentencesExamples
The ridge is broad, flat, and speckled with vegetable sheep and half a dozen brightly coloured alpine plants I can't put a name to.
Above 1500m in the Southern Alps, the only plants that can survive are mosses and lichens - and the aptly named vegetable sheep.
A mat plant related to this vegetable sheep grows in very dry places.
The vegetable sheep are not inaptly named, for at a distance an inexperienced shepherd might perhaps be misled.
Vegetation is sparse above 1700 m, though various species of vegetable sheep thrive, and South Island edelweiss, gentians and hebes grow in sheltered spots.
Definition of vegetable sheep in US English:
vegetable sheep
noun
A New Zealand plant of the daisy family that has grayish hairy leaves and forms hummocks that from a distance look like sheep.
绵羊菊
Raoulia eximia, family Compositae
Example sentencesExamples
A mat plant related to this vegetable sheep grows in very dry places.
The ridge is broad, flat, and speckled with vegetable sheep and half a dozen brightly coloured alpine plants I can't put a name to.
The vegetable sheep are not inaptly named, for at a distance an inexperienced shepherd might perhaps be misled.
Vegetation is sparse above 1700 m, though various species of vegetable sheep thrive, and South Island edelweiss, gentians and hebes grow in sheltered spots.
Above 1500m in the Southern Alps, the only plants that can survive are mosses and lichens - and the aptly named vegetable sheep.