hen and chicken

== English == === Etymology === From the growth habit of the plant: a larger, older plant surrounded by smaller, younger suckers. === Noun === hen and chicken (plural hen and chickens or hens and chickens) Any of several groups of plants of similar appearance: certain succulents in family Crassulaceae: Sempervivum and Jovibarba spp., commonly called hen and chicks. Echeveria spp. Sedum spp., stonecrops. Chlorophytum comosum, spider plant, a commonly cultivated houseplant in family Asparagaceae. Bergenia, a non-succulent Asian plant genus in family Saxifragaceae. Asplenium bulbiferum (hen and chicken fern), of New Zealand. ==== Related terms ==== hen and chicks