Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, especially the Eurasian species Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium, having clusters of reddish-purple flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In painting, a yellow color of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
- noun A succulent herbaceous plant, Scdum Telephium, common in gardens, native in the northern Old World, sometimes becoming wild in America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (
Sedum telephium ), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called alsostonecrop , andlive-forever .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
temperate succulent plants, of the familyCrassulaceae , that have clusters ofpurple flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patient's throat afresh with goose-grease, and had a soothing syrup of orpine standing by, laid a palm over the sufferer's mouth and ordered silence.
A Rare Benedictine Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988
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Upon the rocks, which now bordered the road, were the deep red blossoms of the orpine sedum, and a small crimson-flowered stock with very hoary stem.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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The old walls of Figeac are likewise tapestried with pellitory and ivy-linaria, with here and there a fern pushing its deep-green frond farther into the shadow, or an orpine sedum lifting its head of purple flowers into the sunshine that changes it to a flame.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Our two species of native orpine, S.DUM TERNATUM and S. TELEPHIOIDES. are never troublesome as weeds.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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We have no native plant so indestructible as garden orpine, or live-forever, which our grandmothers nursed, and for which they are cursed by many a farmer.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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But there were still angiospermous and orpine on my original list; and the night was, indeed, "opening like a cotyledon."
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Bot.a. A large genus of herbaceous or woody-stemmed, succulent South African plants of the orpine family (Crassulaceae). b.
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The juice of orpine is good against llie bloody flux: the best way of giving it is made into a thin syrup, with the finest sngar, and uith tlie addition of some cinnamon.
The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ... John Hill, Charles Brightly, T. Kinnersley 1812
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