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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 bracts
Familiarity information: PEARLY EVERLASTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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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