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LYCHNIS ALBA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lychnis alba mean?
• LYCHNIS ALBA (noun)
The noun LYCHNIS ALBA has 1 sense:
1. bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
Familiarity information: LYCHNIS ALBA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bladder campion; evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; white campion; white cockle
Hypernyms ("Lychnis alba" is a kind of...):
campion; catchfly; silene (any plant of the genus Silene)
Holonyms ("Lychnis alba" is a member of...):
genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)
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