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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An annual plant (Vaccaria hispanica) native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America and having clusters of deep-pink flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The field-soapwort, Saponaria Vaccaria.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort; -- also called the cow-cockle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort

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