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Houseleek vs Sempervivum - What's the difference?

houseleek | sempervivum |

As nouns the difference between houseleek and sempervivum

is that houseleek is any of several succulent plants, of the genus sempervivum , having a rosette of fleshy leaves while sempervivum is any of the genus sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.

houseleek

English

(wikipedia houseleek)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum , having a rosette of fleshy leaves

    • Synonyms

    * ay-green * bullock’s eye * cyphel (disused) * foose (dialectal) * full (obsolete, rare) * healing blade * healing leaf * homewort (now historical and rare) * house-green (chiefly in English regional use, now rare) * imbreke (obsolete) * jubarb (obsolete) * Jupiter’s beard * Jupiter’s eye * liveforever * seagreen (obsolete) * sedum (obsolete) * sempervive (obsolete) * semper-vivens (obsolete, rare) * sempervivum * sengreen (now dialectal) * thunder-plant * welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk

    Hyponyms

    * hen and chickens ()

    sempervivum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the genus Sempervivum of succulent plants, the houseleeks or liveforevers.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 15, author=Anne Raver, title=Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=My favorite of the moment: a sleeping man in a long cattle trough, planted with thousands of a Sedum album called Red Ice, now turning ruby red in the cold, with sempervivum eyes on a head-size volcanic rock, and two farmer-like feet made of same. }}