Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tortoise_plant

1 sense of tortoise plant

Sense 1
elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes -- (South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark)
       => vine -- (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)