houseleek
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsalauk, corresponding to house + leek. Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
houseleek (plural houseleeks)
Synonyms edit
- ay-green
- bullock's eye
- cyphel (disused)
- foose (dialectal)
- fouat, fouet (Scotland)
- full (obsolete, rare)
- healing blade
- healing leaf
- homewort (now historical and rare)
- house-green (chiefly in English regional use, now rare)
- Jove's beard
- jubarb (obsolete)
- Jupiter's beard
- Jupiter's eye
- liveforever
- seagreen (obsolete)
- sedum (obsolete)
- sempervive (obsolete)
- semper-vivens (obsolete, rare)
- sempervivum
- sengreen (now dialectal)
- thunder-plant
- welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- cobweb houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum)
- cottony houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum)
- dwarf houseleek (Sedum reflexum)
- roof houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum)
Translations edit
Sempervivum
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References edit
- houseleek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sempervivum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Sempervivum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons