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

  • noun A Eurasian plant (Lychnis coronaria) in the pink family, naturalized in North America, widely cultivated for its woolly silver-gray leaves and rose-red flowers.

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  • noun an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

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