campion : Idioms & Phrases

• noun perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx
  Silene uniflora; Silene vulgaris.
  
• 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.
  

WordNet

• a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen.

Webster 1913

• noun European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
  Agrostemma githago; crown-of-the-field; corn cockle.
  

WordNet

• noun tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America
  Silene acaulis.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a kind of mosslike catchfly (Silene acaulis), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the Arctic circle.

Webster 1913

• noun biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
  Lychnis dioica; red bird's eye; Silene dioica.
  

WordNet

• noun an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
  mullein pink; Lychnis coronaria; gardener's delight; dusty miller.
  

WordNet

• a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.

Webster 1913

• 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.
  

WordNet

• . (Bot.) (a) A kind of catchfly (Silene stellata) with white flowers. (b) A white-flowered Lychnis (Lychnis vespertina).

Webster 1913