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Orpin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Orpin has 1 sense
- orpin(n = noun.plant) live-forever, livelong, orpine, sedum telephium - perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers; Array is a member of genus sedum
is a kind of sedum
CIDE DICTIONARY
Orpin, n. [F., orpiment, also, the plant orpine. See Orpiment.].
- A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red. [1913 Webster]
- The orpine. [1913 Webster]
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