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LYCHNIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lychnis mean?
• LYCHNIS (noun)
The noun LYCHNIS has 1 sense:
1. mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
Familiarity information: LYCHNIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
catchfly; lychnis
Hypernyms ("lychnis" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lychnis"):
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 ("lychnis" is a member of...):
genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)
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