LYCHNIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lychnis mean? 

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

1. mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYCHNIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

catchfly; lychnis

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

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

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

cuckoo flower; Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin (common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals)

Lychins chalcedonica; maltese cross; scarlet lychnis (Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads)

dusty miller; gardener's delight; Lychnis coronaria; mullein pink; rose campion (an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers)

Holonyms ("lychnis" is a member of...):

genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)