CATCHFLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catchfly mean? 

• CATCHFLY (noun)
  The noun CATCHFLY has 2 senses:

1. any plant of the genus Silene

2. mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone

  Familiarity information: CATCHFLY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATCHFLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Silene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

campion; catchfly; silene

Hypernyms ("catchfly" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catchfly"):

moss campion; Silene acaulis (tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America)

Silene caroliniana; wild pink (perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters)

Lychnis dioica; red bird's eye; red campion; Silene dioica (biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

bladder campion; evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; white campion; white cockle (bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)

fire pink; Silene virginica (perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals)

bladder campion; Silene uniflora; Silene vulgaris (perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx)

Holonyms ("catchfly" is a member of...):

genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

catchfly; lychnis

Hypernyms ("catchfly" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catchfly"):

cuckoo flower; Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin (common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals)

Lychins chalcedonica; maltese cross; scarlet lychnis (Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads)

dusty miller; gardener's delight; Lychnis coronaria; mullein pink; rose campion (an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers)

Holonyms ("catchfly" is a member of...):

genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)