Word.ws English Dictionary

sempervivum

sempervivum noun: any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.

Noun

sempervivum (plural sempervivums)

  1. Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
    • My favorite of the moment: a sleeping man in a long cattle trough, planted with thousands of a Sedum album called Red Ice, now turning ruby red in the cold, with sempervivum eyes on a head-size volcanic rock, and two farmer-like feet made of same.2007 November 15, Anne Raver, “Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow”, in New York Times

Forms of sempervivum

pluralsempervivums

Origin of sempervivum

From the genus name.

Questions about sempervivum

What does sempervivum mean?
Sempervivum means any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
What part of speech is sempervivum?
Sempervivum is a noun.
What is the plural of sempervivum?
The plural of sempervivum is sempervivums.

Words near sempervivum in the dictionary

  1. semperlenity
  2. sempervirent
  3. sempervirid
  4. sempervive
  5. sempervives
  6. sempervivum
  7. sempervivums
  8. sempitan
  9. sempitans
  10. sempitern
  11. sempiternal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sempervivum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sempervivum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sempervivum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.