IMMORTELLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immortelle mean? 

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

1. mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMORTELLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

immortelle; Xeranthemum annuum

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

everlasting; everlasting flower (any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

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

genus Xeranthemum (genus of annual densely hairy herbs of Mediterranean to southwestern Asia)