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• Brother Ambrose, still voiceless, essayed speech and achieved only a painful wheeze, before Brother Cadfael, who was anointing his patient's throat afresh with goose-grease,...
• Our two species of native orpine, S.DUM TERNATUM and S. TELEPHIOIDES. are never troublesome as weeds.
• But there were still angiospermous and orpine on my original list; and the night was, indeed, "opening like a cotyledon."
• Bot.a. A large genus of herbaceous or woody-stemmed, succulent South African plants of the orpine family (Crassulaceae). b.