Orpin
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[awr-pin] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers. |
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| perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpine] |
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Or"pi*ment\, n. [F., fr. L. auripigmentum; aurum gold + pigmentum pigment. Cf. Aureate, Pigment, Orpin, Orpine.] (Chem.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing. Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie. --Chaucer. Red orpiment, realgar; the red sulphide of arsenic. Yellow orpiment, king's yellow.
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