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PEARLY EVERLASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pearly everlasting mean? 

PEARLY EVERLASTING (noun)
  The noun PEARLY EVERLASTING has 1 sense:

1. an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bractsplay

  Familiarity information: PEARLY EVERLASTING used as a noun is very rare.


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PEARLY EVERLASTING (noun)


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Meaning:

An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anaphalis margaritacea; cottonweed; pearly everlasting

Hypernyms ("pearly everlasting" is a kind of...):

everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

Holonyms ("pearly everlasting" is a member of...):

Anaphalis; genus Anaphalis (a genus of herbs of north temperate regions having hoary leaves: pearly everlasting)


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