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vegetable sheepnounA New Zealand plant of the daisy family, which has greyish hairy leaves and forms hummocks which look like sheep from a distance.- Raoulia eximia, family Compositae.
The vegetable sheep are not inaptly named, for at a distance an inexperienced shepherd might perhaps be misled....- 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.
- A mat plant related to this vegetable sheep grows in very dry places.
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