WHITE COCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white cockle mean? 

• WHITE COCKLE (noun)
  The noun WHITE COCKLE 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 Lychnis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE COCKLE (noun)

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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 cockle" is a kind of...):

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

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

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