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silene
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noun
- any plant of the large perennial genus Silene, with mostly red or pink flowers; many, esp S. or Agrostemma coeli-rosa, are grown as garden plants: family Carophyllaceae See also campion
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of silene1
Example Sentences
It was raised by Francis Morat, of Louisville, Ky., four years ago; it is also a "sport," and from the old B. silene.
Conspicuous among other wild flowers are now tall pink silenes, very pretty, while the hedges themselves are ablaze with wild roses.
He hastily gave her a hybrid plant which his eagle eye had discerned among the growth of silene acaulis and saxifrage, a real miracle developed under the breath of angels.
Here the silene rears high its head with fringed corolla of scarlet; and there the wild gooseberry dazzles the eye with a perfect shower of tubular flowers of the same bright color.
At the extreme ends were round pieces of bon silene roses and lilies of the valley.
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