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

It is supposed that it was originally made for some lover to give to his mistress on Midsummer Eve, as the orpine plant is connected with that time.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

The common name, "orpine," was given on account of the yellow, or orpine, flowers; and the name "stonecrop," from its always growing in stony places.

From Project Gutenberg

They set the orpine in clay upon pieces of slate or potsherd in their houses, calling it a “Midsummer man.”

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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