Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves usually clustered in dense rosettes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of succulent plants, natural order Crassulaceæ, chiefly natives of Mexico. It is now included in the genus Cotyledon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any member of the large
genus Echeveria ofsucculents , many of which are popular as garden plants.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the echeveria lasts, we will fill it with them, it will look great!
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He packed his yard with watery succulents like echeveria and agave; pruned the 87 avocado trees; added jojoba shrubs; and spread an African groundcover called Aptenia cordifolia that stores water in its leaves.
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That is great about the echeveria too, I will buy more next year and look for babies.
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A bright green echeveria, its leaf tips as red as lipstick, glows like neon.
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A bright green echeveria, its leaf tips as red as lipstick, glows like neon.
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It looks almost like a tender echeveria, yet it's hardy and doesn't die over the winter like that cravable beauty.
The Seattle Times 2011
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McCabe also works with echeveria cultivars that San Francisco nurseryman Victor Reiter developed.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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McCabe's clear favorites are succulents: dudleya and echeveria.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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Other recommendations from the eurphorbia families that Stopek favors are the kalanchoes in a wide assortment of new colors and echeveria.
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Where he once babied along hundreds of fussy echeveria, he now delights in a single specimen.
The Seattle Times 2010
qroqqa commented on the word echeveria
a succulent genus in family Crassulaceae; a plant I've always liked, with its delicate flower varying from flame to yellow, but had never known the name of. The OED gives the pronunciation /ˌekiːˈvɪərɪə/. I'm not sure how I would prefer to say it: /ˌetʃɪˈverɪə/, I think, keeping most of the Basque (etxe berria "new house", giving the surname of the eponymous botanist).
July 3, 2008