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lithops en · NOUN

Etymology

From the genus name, translingual Lithops.

Meanings

1. Any of the genus Lithops of succulent plants resembling stones.
   • Lithops (‘Lithops’ singular) are easily one of Earth's weirdest plants making them highly popular with succulent lovers. They're also infamous for being easy to kill. In fact, I bet we'd be hard pressed to find someone who has never killed a Lithops unless they've just never had one, and that doesn't count. 2018, Andrea Afra, The Succulent Manual, unnumbered page:
   • Lithops are self-sterile, so that seed will only be produced if the plant is pollinated from another specimen from a different clone or group. Yellow flowers will not fertilize white and vice-versa. There is not the same range of flower colour as shown by the conophytums; lithops’ flowers are either white or yellow. 1978, Margaret J. Martin, Peter Richard Chapman, Succulents and Their Cultivation, Schribner, page 86:
   • And the succulents house, which is kept a cool 60 degrees during the day and 50 to 55 degrees at night, holds aloes and lithops (which look like small stones), just beginning to bloom. 2008 January 3, Anne Raver, “No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter”, in New York Times:

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pl litops (Lithops genus plant) · ta கல்செடி (Lithops genus plant)