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Definition of Sedum
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Sedum.
Group relationships: Genus Sedum
Specialized synonyms: Stonecrop, Midsummer-men, Rose-root, Sedum Rosea, Live-forever, Livelong, Orpin, Orpine, Sedum Telephium
Definition of Sedum
1. n. A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
Definition of Sedum
1. Noun. Any of various succulent plants, of the genus ''Sedum'', native to temperate zones; the stonecrop ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sedum
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sedum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedum
Literary usage of Sedum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionaryby Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"CBP White - flower'd Stonecrop, with taper Leaves. 7. sedum minus ... CBP Letter
Stonecrop, with round Leaves. 8. sedum ma jut vulgari ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"sedum is a large group of fleshy-leaved herbaceous plants, mostly hardy and ...
sedum is a genus of about 120 species, all found in the temperate and frigid ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine Or Flower-garden Displayedby William Curtis, John Sims by William Curtis, John Sims (1803)
"There is a considerable affinity in this species to sedum oppositifolium of ...
1807), and still greater to sedum stellatum. In all of these the flowers are ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"But this formation of new shoots takes place in a more remarkable manner in sedum
amplexicaule, DeC., a species occurring in the south of France, ..."
5. Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum by Adrian Hardy Haworth (1812)
"—sedum ternatum. Hort, kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 112.—Mich, americ. 1. p. ... INTROD.1789.
lately by the name of sedum octagon. stellata, A. (Starry) foliis ..."
6. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Genus sedum sedum (Latin, sedeo, to sit, from the half-recumbent habit ...
No less than eight species of sedum are indigenous to Britain, and having regard ..."
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