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Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
Answer for the clue "Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers ", 6 letters:
orpine
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several temperate succulent plants, of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
orpine \or"pine\, n. [F. orpin the genus of plants which includes orpine; -- so called from the yellow blossoms of a common species (Sedum acre). See Orpiment .] (Bot.) A low plant with fleshy leaves ( Sedum telephium ), having clusters of purple flowers. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpin , livelong , live-forever , Sedum telephium ]
Usage examples of orpine.
Orpine reminded me of someone else I had been talking with not long before—of Mucor, the mad girl in Blood's villa.
Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patients throat afresh with goose-grease, and had a soothing syrup of orpine standing by, laid a palm over the sufferers mouth and ordered silence.
Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patient's throat afresh with goose-grease, and had a soothing syrup of orpine standing by, laid a palm over the sufferer's mouth and ordered silence.