wandering Jew

See also: Wandering Jew

English

Etymology

The plant's name is derived from the figure of the Wandering Jew, presumably at least partly from the tendency of those plants to spread through a garden (i.e. wander).

Noun

wandering Jew (plural wandering Jews)

1. Any plant of three species of spiderworts, , , and Tradescantia zebrina.
2. The plant Saxifraga stolonifera.

Translations

Tradescantia pallida

• Swedish: purpurblad (sv) n
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Tradescantia fluminensis

• Swedish: skvallerreva c
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Tradescantia zebrina

• Finnish: juorukki
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• Swedish: zebrablad n, zebrina c