lithopsn.

/ˈlɪθɒps/

Etymology: modern Latin (N.E. Brown 1922, in Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2), < Greek λίθος stone + -ops comb. form.

A small succulent plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Aizoaceæ, native to Namaqualand, South Africa, and resembling small stones.

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1922 Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2 Lithops, N. E. Brown. Very dwarf succulent plants, in nature growing buried in the ground with their tops scarcely, or not at all, rising above the level of the surface.

1922 Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2 Dr. Marloth is quite wrong in his identification of the plant, which I have no doubt whatever is a species of Lithops.]

1938 H. A. Day Flowers of Desert iv. 148 It is most difficult to tell which are plants and which are pebbles when the two are mixed, as they are in the habitat of the Lithops, for the plants grow in the stony deserts of South Africa.

1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvi. 269 We have never found a Lithops on Cranemere, the nearest species that we know of being Burchell's Lithops to the north and another species, Lithops terricolor, to the west.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	lithops
释义	lithopsn. /ˈlɪθɒps/ Etymology: modern Latin (N.E. Brown 1922, in Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2), < Greek λίθος stone + -ops comb. form. A small succulent plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Aizoaceæ, native to Namaqualand, South Africa, and resembling small stones. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > African plants > other African plants Hottentot fig1731 wait-a-bit1785 goat's foot1787 Strelitzia1789 aandblom1793 grapple-plant1822 tile-root1829 neb-neb1839 Cape tulip1850 bird-of-paradise flower1855 dimorphotheca1861 aandblommetjie1870 lithops1938 1922 Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2 Lithops, N. E. Brown. Very dwarf succulent plants, in nature growing buried in the ground with their tops scarcely, or not at all, rising above the level of the surface. 1922 Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2 Dr. Marloth is quite wrong in his identification of the plant, which I have no doubt whatever is a species of Lithops.] 1938 H. A. Day Flowers of Desert iv. 148 It is most difficult to tell which are plants and which are pebbles when the two are mixed, as they are in the habitat of the Lithops, for the plants grow in the stony deserts of South Africa. 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvi. 269 We have never found a Lithops on Cranemere, the nearest species that we know of being Burchell's Lithops to the north and another species, Lithops terricolor, to the west. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1938
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