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ROSE CAMPION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rose campion mean?
• ROSE CAMPION (noun)
The noun ROSE CAMPION has 1 sense:
1. an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
Familiarity information: ROSE CAMPION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
dusty miller; gardener's delight; Lychnis coronaria; mullein pink; rose campion
Hypernyms ("rose campion" is a kind of...):
catchfly; lychnis (mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone)
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