dusty miller

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various plants of the genera Artemisia, Centaurea, Chrysanthemum, Lychnis, and Senecio, having leaves and stems covered with dustlike down.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The auricula, Primula Auricula: so called from the whitemealiness upon the leaves.
2. n. The Senecio Cineraria, a common cultivated foliage-plant which is covered with white tomentum.
3. n. Same as miller, 3.

Wiktionary

1. n. idiomatic A formulaic phrase for a miller, related to the dust generated in the milling process.
2. n. One of several species of plants with leaves of a dusty appearance: Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, and Lychnis coronaria.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. (Bot.) a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
2. n. stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves
3. n. a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
4. n. herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
5. n. shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum