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Definition of Flowering stone
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
Group relationships: Genus Lithops
Generic synonyms: Succulent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering Stone
Literary usage of Flowering stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1849)
"... and yellow flowering stone-erop, were scattered, here and there, irregularly
over a wide common of short, elastic greensward, among huge oaks that might ..."
2. Portugal, Its Land and People: Its Land and People by William Henry Koebel (1909)
"... perfect fretwork of stone—Bussaco is as exotic in the wealth of its sculpture
as it has been in the labour that awoke all this flowering stone to life ! ..."
3. The Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia: With an Account of the Proceedings by George William Childs (1868)
"... LEDGER has a hand in raising this pile of branching and flowering stone planted
in the ocean stream of life flowing through the channels of a vast city. ..."
4. Poet Lore (1898)
"... only, her black hair hung braided on either side of her face, and round about
her head was a garland of yellow flowering stone-crop, such as he wore in ..."
5. The Amateur Emigrant: The Siverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... the spurs of the tall pine, a red flowering stone-plant hung in clusters.
Even the low, thorny chaparral was thick with ..."
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