Vegetable sheep Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage
    Raoulia lutescens; sheep plant; Raoulia australis.
  2. noun cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs
    Haastia pulvinaris; sheep plant.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a white woolly plant (Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains.

Webster 1913