Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sedum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sedum \Se"dum\, n. [NL., fr. L. sedere to sit; so called in
allusion to the manner in which the plants attach themselves
to rocks and walls.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves
and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. --Gray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sedum
n : any of various plants of the genus Sedum
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