Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stonecrop, Sedum acre, an intensely acrid plant formerly used as a remedy in scorbutic diseases. See
stonecrop .
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Examples
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I made no answer, for at this moment we reined up before the gate, and glanced at the massive, studded portal, and the old wall, with its soft crowning of ivy on the top, and grey-green, moss-covered sides, where the yellow wall-pepper and white serpyllum pushed between the crevices of the stonework.
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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There are horse-radish, and stinging rocket, and biting wall-pepper, and still smarter water-pepper, and worm-wood, and nightshade, and spurge, and hemlock, and half a dozen other equally unpleasant weeds.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Indigo-blue bell-flowers and red and white tormentils were still in bloom, while in the clefts of the rocks she came upon the red wall-pepper and a kind of yellow ragwort.
Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864
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