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Definition of Houseleeks
1. houseleek [n] - See also: houseleek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houseleeks
Literary usage of Houseleeks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The houseleeks are found in the mountains of southern and central Europe, ...
The neat compact habit of the houseleeks and the related cotyledons, ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Plate 98 represents two of the greenhouse species—Л, S. Sieboldii, and 1, an
enlarged flower; B, 8. sarmentosum. houseleeks Natural Order ..."
3. A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and by Matthew O'Brien, David Thomas Ansted, Julian R. Jackson, William Latham Bevan (1852)
"The province of the houseleeks, the Canary Isles, and probably also the Azores,
Madeira, ... Many houseleeks and some spurges with naked and spring stems ..."
4. Notes and Thoughts on Gardens and Woodlands: Written Chiefly for Amateurs by Frances Jane Hope (1881)
"In the carpet of gold Sedum are cut out sixteen circles of grey Sedum or Saxifrage,
alternating with small houseleeks, as Sempervivum montanum, &c., ..."
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