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1. perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx

2. bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

1. : any of several plants of the genus Silene having a much-inflated calyx; especially : a bluish green herb (S. latifolia)

2. : an alpine plant (Wahlbergella apetala) of the Rocky mountain region having a calyx in shape suggestive of a Chinese lantern

a European campion, Silene vulgaris (or S. cucubalus), of the pink family, having white flowers with an inflated calyx.

[1755-65]

bladder campion noun

A species of the genus Silene with inflated calyx

Main Entry: ↑bladder

bladder campion,

a campion with an inflated calyx; cowbell.