cassiope

American  

[kuh-sahy-uh-pee] / kəˈsaɪ əˌpi /

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.

2. (initial capital letter) Cassiopeia.

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Etymology

Origin of cassiope

< New Latin, Latin < Greek Kassiópē Cassiopeia

Example Sentences

A few are standing at an elevation of nearly three thousand feet; at twenty-five hundred feet, pyrola, veratrum, vaccinium, fine grasses, sedges, willows, mountain-ash, buttercups, and acres of the most luxuriant cassiope are in bloom.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

Of these cassiope is at once the commonest and the most beautiful and influential.

From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John

Kalmia, lodum, and cassiope fringe the meadow rocks, while the luxuriant, waving groves, so characteristic of the lower lakes, are represented only by clumps of the Dwarf Pine and Hemlock Spruce.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John

Here, too, in this so-called "land of desolation," I met cassiope, growing in fringes among the battered rocks.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John

No evangel among all the mountain plants speaks Nature's love more plainly than cassiope.

From The Mountains of California by Muir, John