Any of a number of plants producing additional small flower heads or offshoots.
- Several species, especially the houseleeks (family Crassulaceae).
- Each of the three ladies produced the old penny with the hen and chickens dated 1928.
- My mother always had a pot of hen and chickens sitting on the porch.
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