White campion Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; bladder campion; Silene latifolia; white cockle.
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(Bot.) (a) A kind of catchfly (Silene stellata ) with white flowers.(b) A white-flowered Lychnis (Lychnis vespertina ).
