noun
an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
• Syn: ↑mullein pink, ↑gardener's delight, ↑dusty miller, ↑Lychnis coronaria
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noun1. : mullein pink
2. : corn cockle
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a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down. Also called dusty miller, mullein pink.
[1520-30]
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rose campion noun
A garden species of campion (Lychnis coronaria)
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Main Entry: ↑rose
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rose campion,
1. = mullein pink. (Cf. ↑mullein pink)
2. the red corockle.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.