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resurrection plant

NOUN
  1. densely tufted fern ally of southwestern United States to Peru; curls up in a tight ball when dry and expands and grows under moist conditions
  2. small grey Asiatic desert plant bearing minute white flowers that rolls up when dry and expands when moist

How To Use resurrection plant In A Sentence

  • CAM also occurs in some resurrection plants that are desiccation-tolerant and can shift between biosis and anabiosis as they dry out and are rewatered, respectively.
  • Liverworts, hornworts, mosses, clubmosses, resurrection plants, quillworts, horsetails, ferns, cycads, ginkgos, conifers, and flowering plants are all plants.
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