(n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other buildings make use of greywater harvesting (or reusing water from places such as sinks in efficient ways), solar panels and roofs covered in a grass-like plant called sedum, as well as extensive insulation and double-glazing.
(2) As a result of screening, we discovered that Sedum sarmentosum Bunge was most preferred among 317 kinds of snail food.
(3) Practise the "Chelsea chop" (so called because it is done around Flower Show time, the end of May), according to how much growth has developed, cutting back by half herbaceous plants such as the taller sedums, asters, phlox, heleniums and chrysanthemums to reduce transpiration and encourage them to make bushier plants that won't need staking.
(4) Use of solar panels, sun pipes, sedum roofing, insulation and double-glazing in buildings.
(5) Mulch newly planted trees and shrubs after a good watering, and choose new plants adapted to drought, such as grey-foliaged plants, sages, lavenders, santolina, or those with fat leaves which store water, such as sedums and sempervivums.
Succulent
Definition:
(a.) Full of juice; juicy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) Its "restaurant" in the Olympic park was decorated with words like "succulent" blown up to obesity to mislead.
(4) Up close, I see that the Culatrans coax exquisite gardens out of the sand with wildflowers, succulents, shell patterns and mad blushes of bougainvillea.
(5) Those questions will probably centre on testimony given by Torres last week – including dozens of emails that allegedly show that the king tried to help his son-in-law land potentially succulent, if legal, contracts.
(6) I try to be nice about it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Corcoran films a strip of rocks and succulents.
(7) Mallard ducks fed a diet containing 3 ppm DDE (equal to about 0.6 ppm in a natural succulent diet) laid eggs that contained an average of 5.8 ppm DDE; ducklings that hatched from these eggs differed from controls in behavioral tests designed to measure responses to a maternal call and to a frightening stimulus.
(8) The traumatic damages of the uterine wall are described (extravascular fibrin deposits, interstitial bleeding, succulent tissue a.s.o.
(9) These mercury diets are approximately equivalent to 0.1 and 0.6 ppm mercury in a natural succulent diet.
(10) Downstairs a large bar-restaurant flows outside, serving succulent lamb, seafood and paella.
(11) A few days before the 1st dead animal was found, the drought was relieved by about 10 cm (4 in) of rainfall, resulting in the growth of young succulent grass.
(12) Published field studies indicate that these animals depend more on dry hard fruit and chitinous invertebrates during drier times and succulent fruits and caterpillars during wetter times of the year.
(13) Customers from all walks of life happily devour their succulent char-roasted morsels of goodness, while downing ice-cold beer or horchata , a milky-looking drink made from rice.
(14) The winner, however, is the rib-eye; bit pricier, but pesos well spent for tender succulence.
(15) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
(16) Above the roar of machinery, Stiles explains that you need some skin to keep the nuggets succulent; 15% is about right, he reckons.
(17) The meat is juicy and succulent, the smoky grilled aroma lingering until you take the next bite.
(18) thermophilus in the milk; -- in feeding greater amounts of succulent forages in the winter, spring, and autumn periods there is a retardation in the development of the same organisms in the milk.
(19) In promonocytes and in neutrophilic and eosinophilic proganulocytes, peroxidase reaction product was localized in lysosomes, in the perinuclear cisternae, all cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi succules.
(20) What people leave as forest could be sparse hill slopes, and the elephants may well prefer to move through farmlands and feed on succulent crops as they go.