hen and chickens
11Hen and Chickens Court — North out of Fleet Street at No. 183, east of St. Dunstan s church, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First mention: O. and M. 1677. Called Hen and Chick Court (Rocque, 1746). Now gives entrance to a business house. Name …
12hen and chickens — noun a houseleek or other plant producing additional small flower heads or offshoots. [Jovibarba sobilifera and other species.] …
13hen and chickens — noun Date: 1884 any of several plants having offsets, runners, or flowers that send out shoots; especially houseleek …
14Hen and chicks — (also known as Hen and chickens) is a common name for a group of small succulents belonging to the flowering plant family Crassulaceae, native to Europe and northern Africa. They grow close to the ground with leaves formed around each other in a… …
15hen-and-chick|ens — «HEHN uhn CHIHK uhnz», noun, or hen and chickens, any one of various plants that spread rapidly, as by means of offshoots, such as European houseleek or, in some localities, ground ivy …
16Hen and Chicken Islands — The islands were named by Captain James Cook, who first sighted them in 1769. It has been suggested that the name was inspired by an old name for the star cluster usually known as the Pleiades (and called Matariki by the Māori).Originally owned… …
17hen-and-chicken fern — /hɛn ən ˈtʃɪkən fɜn/ (say hen uhn chikuhn fern) noun 1. an attractive fern of eastern Australia, Asplenium bulbiferum, so called because the new shoots grow on the parent fern. 2. any of various similar plants. Also, hen and chickens …
18hens-and-chickens — hens and chick·ens (hĕnz ən chĭkʹənz) n. Plural of hen and chickens. * * * …
19hen — n. 1 a a female bird, esp. of a domestic fowl. b (in pl.) domestic fowls of either sex. 2 a female lobster or crab or salmon. Phrases and idioms: hen and chickens any of several plants esp. the houseleek. hen coop a coop for keeping fowls in. hen …
20hen|house — «HEHN HOWS», noun. a house for poultry: »When you start a chicken farm, you don t get the chickens before you get the henhouse, the feed and the fencing (Wall Street Journal) …
