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Lychnis alba — noun bluish green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening opening white flowers with much inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis • Syn: ↑white campion, ↑evening lychnis, ↑white cockle, ↑bladder campion, ↑Silene latifolia … Useful english dictionary
evening campion — noun or evening lychnis : white campion a * * * a sticky, hairy European weed, Silene alba, of the pink family, having night blooming, fragrant flowers, the male and female of which grow on separate plants. Also called white campion … Useful english dictionary
white campion — noun bluish green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening opening white flowers with much inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis • Syn: ↑evening lychnis, ↑white cockle, ↑bladder campion, ↑Silene latifolia, ↑Lychnis alba… … Useful english dictionary
bladder campion — noun 1. perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx • Syn: ↑Silene uniflora, ↑Silene vulgaris • Hypernyms: ↑silene, ↑campion, ↑catchfly 2. bluish green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening opening… … Useful english dictionary
Silene latifolia — noun bluish green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening opening white flowers with much inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis • Syn: ↑white campion, ↑evening lychnis, ↑white cockle, ↑bladder campion, ↑Lychnis alba •… … Useful english dictionary
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 • Syn: ↑white campion, ↑evening lychnis, ↑bladder campion, ↑Silene latifolia, ↑Lychnis alba … Useful english dictionary
genus Silene — noun large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly • Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Caryophyllaceae, ↑family Caryophyllaceae, ↑carnation family, ↑pink family … Useful english dictionary
silene — noun any plant of the genus Silene • Syn: ↑campion, ↑catchfly • Hypernyms: ↑flower • Hyponyms: ↑moss campion, ↑Silene acaulis, ↑wild pink, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
On Nature's Trail — was a television show produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting in Owings Mills, Maryland in 1978. The show featured Elmer and Jean Worthley observing and discussing plants growing at different locations in Baltimore County,… … Wikipedia
Vespertine (biology) — Vespertine is a term used in the life sciences to indicate something of, relating to, or occurring in the evening. In botany, a vespertine flower is one which opens or blooms in the evening, while in zoology, it describes a creature that becomes… … Wikipedia
