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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

... completed in the other two sides by a wall about twenty feet high. This was built of cut stone, rudely cut indeed, and now much worn, but of a beautiful rich tawny yellow colour, the effect of that stonecrop of minute growth, which it had taken three centuries to produce. The top of this wall was ornamented by huge round stone balls of the same colour as the wall itself. Entrance into the court was had through a pair ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... her 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 ...

— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... grow in the garden, now trampled hard by the india-rubber-soled feet of many dogs; but Dickie did his best with window-boxes, and every window was underlined by a bright dash of color—creeping-jenny, Brompton stocks, stonecrop, and late tulips, and all bought from the barrows in the High ...

— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit

Words linked to "Stonecrop" : stonecrop family, wall pepper, genus Sedum, Sedum acre, sedum