live-forever

American  

[liv-fer-ev-er] / ˈlɪv fərˌɛv ər /

noun

1. a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of live-forever

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Catalina has more than 60 endemic species of plants and animals, so be on the lookout for Catalina Island fox and Catalina live-forever succulents, among other unique wildlife.

From Los Angeles Times

People — writers, editors, producers — do things in the heat of jumping on a story that they later regret, and even on the live-forever Internet, an attempt at making it right goes a long way.

From New York Times

We have no native plant so indestructible as garden orpine, or live-forever, which our grandmothers nursed and for which they are cursed by many a farmer.

From Project Gutenberg

Take a live-forever leaf, squeeze it to loosen the inner and outer skin.

From Project Gutenberg

We can make pudding-bags of live-forever, dolls' bonnets, "trimmed up to the nines," out of the velvet mullein leaf, and from the ox-eyed daisies, round, cap-begirt faces, smiling as the sun.

From Project Gutenberg