cassiope

American  

[kuh-sahy-uh-pee] / kəˈsaɪ əˌpi /

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.

2. (initial capital letter) Cassiopeia.

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Etymology

Origin of cassiope

< New Latin, Latin < Greek Kassiópē Cassiopeia

Example Sentences

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cassiope

The lower are mostly alder bushes and the topmost a lavish profusion of flowering plants, chiefly cassiope, vaccinium, pyrola, erigeron, gentiana, campanula, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, with a few grasses and ferns.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

A few are standing at an elevation of nearly three thousand feet; at twenty-five hundred feet, pyrola, veratrum, vaccinium, fine grasses, sedges, willows, mountain-ash, buttercups, and acres of the most luxuriant cassiope are in bloom.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

On Oppapago, which is also called Sheep Mountain, one finds not far from the beds of cassiope the ice-worn, stony hollows where the bighorns cradle their young.

From The Land of Little Rain by Austin, Mary Hunter

Kalmia, lodum, and cassiope fringe the meadow rocks, while the luxuriant, waving groves, so characteristic of the lower lakes, are represented only by clumps of the Dwarf Pine and Hemlock Spruce.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John

The trees were dwarfed as I ascended; patches of the alpine bryanthus and cassiope began to appear, and arctic willows pressed into flat carpets by the winter snow.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John