Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant, the orpine, Sedum Telephium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers

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Examples

  • I think these live-forever types are a load of snivelling, selfish, cowardy custards. 90 is well more then enough ration.

    Live forever? No thanks 2009

  • This is a picture of Dudleya, or live-forever, which is a very pretty succulent that grows out of cracks in rocks.

    Hiking 2009

  • This is a picture of Dudleya, or live-forever, which is a very pretty succulent that grows out of cracks in rocks.

    May 2009 2009

  • I think these live-forever types are a load of snivelling, selfish, cowardy custards. 90 is well more then enough ration.

    Miscellaneous 2009

  • Smooth prickly pear (Opuntia phaeacantha var. laevis) and live-forever (Dudleya spp.) grow on vertical cliffs or within the canopies of armored plants.

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • Irene delved for some more seeds, and grew a fiesta flower, a rainbow fem, a good-luck plant, a silver-ball plant, a pearl plant, a live-forever plant, a love-charm plant, and a bag flower for the refuse of the party.

    Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

  • She taught them how to make "blow-bags" out of the thick leaves of the "live-forever" that flourished in the old Bailey garden, she initiated them into the toothsome qualities of the "sours" that grew in the niches of the graveyard dyke, and she could make the most wonderful shadow pictures on the walls with her long, flexible fingers.

    Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

  • Aunt Kate sent down east to her sister Lib for roots of sweet Mary, ribbon-grass, and live-forever, all of which came, took root, and grew in the course of time.

    The Second Chance 1910

  • Aunt Kate sent down east to her sister Lib for roots of sweet Mary, ribbon-grass, and live-forever, all of which came, took root, and grew in the course of time.

    The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • She taught them how to make "blow-bags" out of the thick leaves of the "live-forever" that flourished in the old Bailey garden, she initiated them into the toothsome qualities of the "sours" that grew in the niches of the graveyard dyke, and she could make the most wonderful shadow pictures on the walls with her long, flexible fingers.

    Rainbow Valley 1908

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