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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A plant, Lychnis Chalcedonica. Also called cross-of-Jerusalem.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. See
Illust. 5, of Cross. - n. (Bot.) A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.
- n. A cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center. See illustration under cross.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads
- n. a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center
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“They, with two others below, formed the revolving Maltese cross of the reaping-machine, which had been brought to the field on the previous evening to be ready for operations this day.”
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