stonecrop

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Etymology

stone +‎ crop From the apparent ability of the plant to grow out of bare rock and stone.

Noun

stonecrop (plural stonecrops)

1. Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum (Crassulaceae family), native to temperate zones.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

     A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the bows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

Translations

Sedum

• German: Fetthenne (de) f, Mauerpfeffer (de) m
• Manx: pibbyr y voalley (gv) m

• Russian: очиток (ru) (očítok) m
• Volapük: seud (vo)

Anagrams

• necropost