dusty miller
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1. an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers (noun.plant)
2. herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wormwood, |
| definition | : | any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus artemisia, |
| definition | : | usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon (noun.plant) |
3. a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | centaury, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Centaurea (noun.plant) |
4. stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves (noun.plant)
| member meronym | : | genus senecio, senecio, |
| definition | : | enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds (noun.plant) |
5. shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | composite, composite plant, |
| definition | : | considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus tanacetum, tanacetum, |
| definition | : | a large genus of plants resembling chrysanthemums; comprises some plants often included in other genera especially genus Chrysanthemum (noun.plant) |
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