houseleek

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves.
    — Equal parts of the juice of house-leek, brandy and sweet-oil in a phial, to be hung up and exposed to the sun for a month or more.

词形变化

houseleeks plural

词源

From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsalauk. Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök. By surface analysis, house + leek.
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