Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Houseleek

Houseleek , noun

[House + leek.]

(Botany) A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (Sempervivum tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.