catchfly
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1. mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | flower, |
| definition | : | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cuckoo flower, lychins floscuculi, lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin, |
| definition | : | common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lychins chalcedonica, maltese cross, scarlet lychnis, |
| definition | : | Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dusty miller, gardener's delight, lychnis coronaria, mullein pink, rose campion, |
| definition | : | an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus lychnis, |
| definition | : | genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly (noun.plant) |
2. any plant of the genus Silene (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | flower, |
| definition | : | a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | moss campion, silene acaulis, |
| definition | : | tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | silene caroliniana, wild pink, |
| definition | : | perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lychnis dioica, red bird's eye, red campion, silene dioica, |
| definition | : | biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bladder campion, evening lychnis, lychnis alba, silene latifolia, white campion, white cockle, |
| definition | : | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fire pink, silene virginica, |
| definition | : | perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bladder campion, silene uniflora, silene vulgaris, |
| definition | : | perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus silene, |
| definition | : | large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly (noun.plant) |
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