HOUSELEEK

Etymology

Noun

houseleek (plural houseleeks)

Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves

Synonyms

• ay-green

• bullock’s eye

• cyphel (disused)

• foose (dialectal)

• fouat, fouet (Scotland)

• full (obsolete, rare)

• healing blade

• healing leaf

• homewort (now historical and rare)

• house-green (chiefly in English regional use, now rare)

• imbreke (obsolete)

• jubarb (obsolete)

• Jupiter’s beard

• Jupiter’s eye

• liveforever

• seagreen (obsolete)

• sedum (obsolete)

• sempervive (obsolete)

• semper-vivens (obsolete, rare)

• sempervivum

• sengreen (now dialectal)

• thunder-plant

• welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk

Hyponyms

• hen and chickens (Sempervivum globiferum)

Source: Wiktionary

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House"leek`, n. Etym: [House + leek.] (Bot.)

Definition: A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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