SILENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silene mean? 

• SILENE (noun)
  The noun SILENE has 1 sense:

1. any plant of the genus Silene

  Familiarity information: SILENE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILENE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Silene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

campion; catchfly; silene

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

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

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 ("silene" is a member of...):

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