Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Sedum and other genera such as Hylotelephium that were formerly classified in Sedum, having fleshy leaves and variously colored flowers and frequently grown in rock gardens.
- noun Any of various similar plants of the family Crassulaceae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wall-pepper, Sedum acre: so called as frequently growing upon walls and rocks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sort of tree.
- noun (Bot.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp.
Sedum acre , which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. SeeOrpine . - noun an American plant (
Penthorum sedoides ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
succulent plants , of thegenus Sedum (Crassulaceae family), native totemperate zones.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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But also stonecrop, which is a common name for sedum.
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The stonecrop is the finest of roof-plants, sometimes forming
The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867
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Sedum, also known as stonecrop, is a classic fall plant for container gardens because that's when it looks its best.
About Today 2009
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A rooftop at Duke University Medical Center sports a new lush ground cover: hardy succulent plants called stonecrop that tolerate heat and need little water.
RutlandHerald.com 2008
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Sedum is a succulent plant also known as stonecrop. digg this digg this email this email this tweet this tweet this facebook this facebook this
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Its bricks are made from recycled waste, and it has bike parking, bike showers, high-performance windows, and three green roofs planted with golden stonecrop, sweet woodruff, Allegheny foamflower and Solomon's seal.
After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011
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Its bricks are made from recycled waste, and it has bike parking, bike showers, high-performance windows, and three green roofs planted with golden stonecrop, sweet woodruff, Allegheny foamflower and Solomon's seal.
After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011
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The edge of the common is a bulwark of tightly interlocked stones on a foundation of unwieldy boulders, all clothed in lichen and flowering stonecrop with blue sheep's-bit, ling and bilberry.
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A: Sedum sexangular (S. sexanulare), also commonly called tasteless stonecrop, is extremely tolerant of cold conditions.
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The first word refers to the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae) in which the phenomenon was first discovered.
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