noun
bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
• Syn: ↑evening lychnis, ↑white cockle, ↑bladder campion, ↑Silene latifolia, ↑Lychnis alba
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Silene
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noun : any of several white-flowered herbs: as
a. : a viscid-pubescent European herb (Lychnis alba) with fragrant flowers — called also white cockle
b. : starry campion
c. : snowy campion
Useful english dictionary. 2012.