Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Jupiter \Ju"pi*ter\, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See {Jove}.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and
reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He
corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the brightest except
Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter
being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in
4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun,
the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
{Jupiter's beard}. (Bot.)
(a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red
blossoms ({Centranthus ruber}).
(b) The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum}); -- so called
from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured
beard of Jove. --Prior.
(c) the cloverlike {Anthyllis Barba-Jovis}.
{Jupiter's staff} (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called
from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.
Sempervivum \Sem`per*vi"vum\, n. (Bot.)
A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek
({Sempervivum tectorum}) is the commonest species.
Ayegreen \Aye"green`\, n. [Aye ever + green.] (Bot.)
The houseleek ({Sempervivum tectorum}). --Halliwell.