Usually means: Succulent plant, often used ornamentally.
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  1. houseleek: Merriam-Webster
  2. houseleek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. houseleek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. houseleek: Collins English Dictionary
  5. houseleek: Wordnik
  6. houseleek: Wiktionary
  7. houseleek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. houseleek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. houseleek: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Houseleek, houseleek: Dictionary.com
  11. Houseleek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Houseleek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. houseleek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Houseleek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. houseleek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. houseleek: FreeDictionary.org
  17. houseleek: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (houseleek)

▸ noun:  Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves.

Similar:
sempervivum, sempervive, sengreen, liveforever, hen and chicks, ayegreen, scaleseed, leek, succulent, senecio, more...

Opposite:
houseblight, house rot, house decay

Types:
Sempervivum, Jovibarba, Echeveria, Sedum, Kalanchoe, Crassulaceae, more...

Phrases:
cobweb houseleek, more...

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Similar:
sempervivum, sempervive, sengreen, liveforever, hen and chicks, ayegreen, scaleseed, leek, succulent, senecio, more...

Opposite:
houseblight, house rot, house decay

Types:
Sempervivum, Jovibarba, Echeveria, Sedum, Kalanchoe, Crassulaceae, more...

Phrases:
cobweb houseleek, more...



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