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CATCHFLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone
Synonyms:
catchfly; lychnis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("catchfly" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catchfly"):
cuckoo flower; Lychins floscuculi; Lychnis flos-cuculi; ragged robin (common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals)
Lychins chalcedonica; maltese cross; scarlet lychnis (Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads)
dusty miller; gardener's delight; Lychnis coronaria; mullein pink; rose campion (an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers)
Holonyms ("catchfly" is a member of...):
genus Lychnis (genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("catchfly" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catchfly"):
moss campion; Silene acaulis (tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America)
Silene caroliniana; wild pink (perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters)
Lychnis dioica; red bird's eye; red campion; Silene dioica (biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)
bladder campion; evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; Silene latifolia; white campion; white cockle (bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis)
fire pink; Silene virginica (perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals)
bladder campion; Silene uniflora; Silene vulgaris (perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx)
Holonyms ("catchfly" is a member of...):
genus Silene (large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly)