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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
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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SALTWORT
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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