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orpine

/awr-pin/US // ˈɔr pɪn //UK // (ˈɔːpaɪn) //

奥平,松树,松木,松树皮

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.