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Stonecrop n.

A sort of tree. (Obs.)

(Bot.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine.

Virginian stonecrop, or Ditch stonecrop, an American plant (Penthorum sedoides).

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Etymology of 'Stonecrop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stonecrop" Quotes from Famous Books

... runs through all or most of its parts. And a principal thing which a botanist notices when examining a flower is its numerical plan. It is upon this that the symmetry of the blossom depends. Thus the stonecrop and the flax are based upon the number five, which is exhibited in all their parts. Some flowers of this same stonecrop have their parts in fours, and then that number runs throughout; namely, there are four sepals, four petals, eight stamens ...

— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner

... meadow: there is not an inch of the meadow in early summer without a flower. Old walls, as we saw just now, are not left without a fringe; on the top of the hardest brick wall, on the sapless tiles, on slates, stonecrop takes hold and becomes a cushion of yellow bloom. Nature is a miniature painter and handles a delicate brush, the tip of which touches the tiniest spot and leaves something living. The park has indeed its larger lines, its broad open sweep, and gradual slope, to ...

— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... by the pond, dark and white and slender. Anne held out her hands smeared with the crushed flesh of the stonecrop; her mother stooped and wiped them with her pockethandkerchief, and there was a smell of lavender. The goldfish went swimming by in ...

— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... his sadness, left the pond, and returning to the lime avenue, he interested himself in a closer inspection of the trees. They raised huge trunks, covered with reddish-brown stonecrop, silvered grey by mosses; and several that morning were wrapped as in a mantle trimmed with pearls, gossamer threads studded with drops ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Words linked to "Stonecrop" : sedum, Sedum acre