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stonecrop|ˈstəʊnkrɒp|
Forms: 1 stáncrop, 4–5 stancroppe, 5 stoon-, stoncroppe, 5–6 stoncrop, 5–8 stone crop, 6 stone croppe, 7 stone cropp, 8–9 stone-crop, 7– stonecrop.
[OE. stáncrop: see stone n. and crop n. (? sense 3).]
The common name of Sedum acre (N.O. Crassulaceæ), a herb with bright yellow flowers and small cylindrical fleshy sessile leaves, growing in masses on rocks, old walls, etc.; also applied (with or without defining word) to other species of Sedum, esp. those of similar growth, and of allied genera, as the N. American Penthorum.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 354 Cassuc þefan þorn, stan crop. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 17 Crassula minor, vermicularis, an. stancroppe. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. (1894) 185 Leie þerevpon a lynnen clooþ wet in þe iuys of stooncroppe. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 113 Item drynke stancroppe wyþ wermot & hit wol slee hem. 1548Turner Names Herbes 72 Sedum... The seconde kynde is called in English thryft or stoncroppe. The thyrd kinde is called in Englishe Mouse tayle or litle stoncroppe. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Stonecrop,..an Herb of a very hot temperature, sharp and biting. 1777Jacob Catal. Plants 103 Sedum annuum, Mountain Stone-crop. Ibid. 104 Sedum reflexum, Yellow Stone-crop, or Prick-madam... Sedum acre, Stonecrop, or Wall-pepper. 1782J. Scott Poet. Wks. 100 Along my wall the yellow stonecrop grows. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley i, An ancient wall..overgrown with trailing ivy, yellow stonecrop, and dark moss. 1866Treas. Bot. 861/1 Penthorum sedoides commonly goes by the name of Virginian Stonecrop in the United States.
b. stonecrop tree, shrub stonecrop or tree stonecrop: names for Suæda (Salsola) fruticosa.
c1710Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Tab. viii, Tree Stonecrop. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 189 The greater Stone-crop Tree is a beautiful green. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 278 Salsola..fruticosa..Shrub Stone-Crop, or Glasswort. |