Houseleek

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various plants of the genus Sempervivum native to the Old World, especially S. tectorum, having a persistent basal rosette of fleshy leaves and a branching cluster of pinkish or purplish flowers. Also called live-forever, old-man-and-woman.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (Sempervivum tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The common name of the plants of the genus Sempervivum, natural order Crassulaceæ.
  • Word Usage
    "Following our path of the night before, we walked up a ruined street which I could see was only one of scores in what had once been a very great city, until we came to the archway that I have mentioned, a large one now overgrown with plants that from their yellow, sweet-scented bloom I judged to be a species of wallflower, also with a kind of houseleek or saxifrage."
    Variant
    ayegreen   
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    Words with the same meaning