orpine
/awr-pin/US // ˈɔr pɪn //UK // (ˈɔːpaɪn) //
奥平,松树,松木,松树皮
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
Examples
Our two species of native orpine, Sedum ternatum and S. telephioides, are never troublesome as weeds.
Orpine for Quinsie in the throat, for which disease it is inferior to none.
Like the orpine, it was a veritable "live-long," or as the politicians say, "die-hard."
They set orpine in clay upon pieces of slate in their houses, under the name of a Midsummer man.
The Orpine was a flower linked with tradition and mystery in England, there were scores of fanciful notions connected with it.
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