stonecrop

stonecrop

English

Etymology

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

Noun

stonecrop (countable and uncountable, plural stonecrops)

1. Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
   • 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.

2. Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae.

Derived terms

• ditch stonecrop
• Virginia stonecrop, Virginian stonecrop

Translations

Sedum

Arabic: حَيّ الْعَالَم‎ m (ḥayy al-ʿālam) Aramaic: חַיָּיא לְעָלְמָא‎ m (ḥayyā lə-ʿāləmā) Armenian: թանթռնիկ (hy) (tʿantʿṙnik) Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: тлъстига f (tlǎstiga) Catalan: crespinell m Czech: rozchodník m Dutch: sedum (nl) n, vetkruid (nl) n Finnish: maksaruoho (fi) French: orpin (fr) m Galician: boubín German: Fetthenne (de) f, Mauerpfeffer (de) m Greek: Ancient: ἀείζωον n (aeízōon) Hebrew: חַי הָעוֹלָם‎ m (ḥay hā-ʿōlā́m), חַי לְעוֹלָם‎ m (ḥay lə-ʿōlā́m) Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Manx: pibbyr y voalley m Polish: rozchodnik (pl) m Russian: очи́ток (ru) m (očítok) Serbo-Croatian: Latin: же̑дња̄к m Latin: žȇdnjāk (sh) m Slovak: rozchodník (sk) m Slovene: homúlica f Spanish: pampajarito m, siempreviva f Swedish: fetknopp (sv) c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: очи́ток m (očýtok) Volapük: seud

Lithospermum — see stoneseed

Anagrams

• necropost