orpine noun. ['ɔ:pɪn] Also orpin. ME.
[In sense 1 from Old & mod. French orpin (cf. Anglo-Latin orpina); in sense 2 from Old French orpine yellow arsenic, presumably shortening of orpiment (see ORPIMENT).]
1. A stonecrop, Sedum telephium, with smooth flat fleshy leaves and corymbs of reddish-purple flowers, which grows on woodland banks etc. and is an old-fashioned garden plant. Also called livelong. ME.

2. = ORPIMENT. M16-E18.

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