white cockle

white cockle
noun
bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
Hypernyms: ↑silene, ↑campion, ↑catchfly
Member Holonyms: ↑genus Silene

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