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houseleek (medicine) and Greekish (iou)


houseleek (medicine)


houseleek
<botany> A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. Tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat.

Synonym: ayegreen.

Origin: House + leek.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Greekish (iou)



Greekish adjective. OE.

I. = GREEK adjective 2. OE-M17.
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks. arch. ME.
R. Cudworth The very Names of many of the Greekish Gods were originally Egyptian.
= GREEK adjective 3. E-M17.
II.
Somewhat Greek; resembling Greek persons or things; characteristic of a Greek or Greeks. M16.
R. Burns There, Learning, with his Greekish face, Grunts out some Latin ditty.