houseleek

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈhaʊsliːk/

Definition of houseleek

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”

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Etymology

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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