Definitions for orpines

orpines or·pine

Spelling: [awr-pin]
IPA: /ˈɔr pɪn/

Orpines is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in orpines (einoprs).

Definitions for orpines

noun

  1. a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.

Origin of orpines

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French, back formation from orpiment orpiment

Examples for orpines

The orpine was a flower linked with tradition and mystery in England, there were scores of fanciful notions connected with it.

Like the orpine, it was a veritable "live-long," or as the politicians say, "die-hard."

They set the orpine in clay upon pieces of slate or potsherd in their houses, calling it a Midsummer man.

orpine for Quinsie in the throat, for which disease it is inferior to none.

Word Value for orpines
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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