houseleek
noun/ˈhaʊsliːk/
Etymology From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsalauk. Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök. By surface analysis, house + leek.
1
Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves.
- Equal parts of the juice of house-leek, brandy and sweet-oil in a phial, to be hung up and exposed to the sun for a month or more.1847, editorial staff, “A Cure for Deafness”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 74:
- Synonyms
25 terms
ay-green, ayegreen, bullock's eye, cyphel, foose, fouat, fouet, full, healing blade, healing leaf, homewort, house-green, Jove's beard, jubarb, Jupiter's beard, Jupiter's eye, liveforever, seagreen, sedum, semper-vivens, sempervive, sempervivum, sengreen, thunder-plant, welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk- Derived terms
- cobweb houseleek, cottony houseleek, dwarf houseleek, roof houseleek, sea houseleek
- Hyponyms
- hen and chicken