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stonecrop

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stone·crop  (stnkrp)
n.
1. Any of various plants of the genus Sedum, having fleshy leaves and variously colored flowers.
2. Any of various related plants.

[Middle English, from Old English stncropp : stn, stone; see stone + cropp, cluster, sprout.]

stonecrop [ˈstəʊnˌkrɒp]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various N temperate crassulaceous plants of the genus Sedum, having fleshy leaves and typically red, yellow, or white flowers
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various similar or related plants
[Old English: so named because it grows on rocks and walls]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stonecropstonecrop - any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers
genus Sedum - large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves
sedum - any of various plants of the genus Sedum
Sedum acre, wall pepper - mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover
Translations
stonecrop [ˈstəʊnkrɒp] Nuva f de gato


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In the three months of the summer it only freezes every other day and every night, and then the snow begins to weep off on the southerly slopes, and a few ground-willows put out their woolly buds, a tiny stonecrop or so makes believe to blossom, beaches of fine gravel and rounded stones run down to the open sea, and polished boulders and streaked rocks lift up above the granulated snow.
 
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