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WHITE CAMPION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white campion mean? 

WHITE CAMPION (noun)
  The noun WHITE CAMPION has 1 sense:

1. bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnisplay

  Familiarity information: WHITE CAMPION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WHITE CAMPION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bladder campion; evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; white campion; white cockle

Hypernyms ("white campion" is a kind of...):

campion; catchfly; silene (any plant of the genus Silene)

Holonyms ("white campion" is a member of...):

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


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