Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Lychnis of the pink family, including cultivated species such as the rose campion.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, I wasn't familiar with lychnis before I Googled it, but how could I resist a link with a name so much like "Guy Gardner"?
Week 16: Oliveyoogh Douglas Wolk 2006
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Also, I wasn't familiar with lychnis before I Googled it, but how could I resist a link with a name so much like "Guy Gardner"?
Archive 2006-08-01 Douglas Wolk 2006
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Pliny is said to have been one of the earliest authors to state that wearing the lychnis, or star variety of ruby, brings about favors from persons in power or with authority.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Pliny is said to have been one of the earliest authors to state that wearing the lychnis, or star variety of ruby, brings about favors from persons in power or with authority.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Pliny is said to have been one of the earliest authors to state that wearing the lychnis, or star variety of ruby, brings about favors from persons in power or with authority.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Pliny is said to have been one of the earliest authors to state that wearing the lychnis, or star variety of ruby, brings about favors from persons in power or with authority.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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First comes the orange lilium elegans, then scarlet lychnis and later, tiger lilies.
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The scarlet lychnis and its many varieties are nearly past, but the large-flowered, Haag's, and others of that section, are in their prime, and showy plants they are.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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The grass is long and yet sparse; here and there a few flowers cling, hardy geraniums, lychnis, and the like, but they seem strangely out of place.
Melody : the Story of a Child Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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Beds of poppies, hollyhocks, scarlet lychnis, and the most flaming flowers, border the edge of the walks, which extend till the perspective meets, and swarm with ladies and gentlemen in parti-coloured raiment.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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