orpine

American  

[awr-pin] / ˈɔr pɪn /

Or orpin

noun

1. a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.

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orpine British  

/ ˈɔːpɪn, ˈɔːpaɪn /

noun

1. Also called: livelong.   live-forever.  a succulent perennial N temperate crassulaceous plant, Sedum telephium, with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers

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Etymology

Origin of orpine

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French, back formation from orpiment orpiment

Example Sentences

There, he whipped up the omelet of my dreams, puffy and rich, and served it with his just-plucked harvest, including acidic wood sorrel, spruce shoots and juicy, fleshy-leafed orpine.

From Washington Post

There, he whipped up the omelet of my dreams, puffy and rich, and served it with his just-plucked harvest, including acidic wood sorrel, spruce shoots and juicy, fleshy-leafed orpine.

From Washington Post

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 A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John

It is supposed that it was originally made for some lover to give to his mistress on Midsummer Eve, as the orpine plant is connected with that time.

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William

The device consisted of two orpine plants joined by a true-love knot, with this motto above: Ma fiancée velt, i.e.,

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William