houseleek

Meaning

Noun

• Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves

Related

Similar words

• ay-green
• cyphel (disused)
• foose (dialectal)
• fouat, fouet (Scotland)
• full (obsolete, rare)
• healing blade
• healing leaf
• homewort (now historical and rare)
• house-green (chiefly in English regional use, now rare)
• imbreke (obsolete)
• jubarb (obsolete)
• liveforever
• seagreen (obsolete)
• sedum (obsolete)
• sempervive (obsolete)
• semper-vivens (obsolete, rare)
• sempervivum
• sengreen (now dialectal)
• thunder-plant
• welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk

Narrower meaning words

• hen and chickens (Sempervivum globiferum (species))

Origin

• From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-Germanic *hūsalaukaz, corresponding to . Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök.