orpin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
    Sedum telephium; livelong; live-forever; orpine.

WordNet


Or"pin noun
Etymology
F., orpiment, also, the plant orpine. See Orpiment.
Definitions
  1. A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
  2. (Bot.) The orpine.

Webster 1913