Crossword-Solution: LYCHNIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lychnis | n. | A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields. |
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| plant with red, pink, or white flowers | 1 answer |
| CORNFIELD-growing plant | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LYCHNIS (5)
Pink lychnis flowers behind the withy stoles, and little black moorhens swim away, as you gather it, after their mother, who has dived under the water-grass, and broken the smooth surface of the duckweed.
Geranium, lychnis, rose array’d The windows, all wide open thrown; And some one in the Study play’d The Wedding-March of Mendelssohn.
That this has occurred, we may infer from the presence of rudimentary stamens in the flowers of some individuals, and of rudimentary pistils in the flowers of other individuals, for example in Lychnis dioica.
RED CAMPION (_Lychnis diurna_).—Robins, as children call it, with the bright pink in every hedge and the undergrowth in every copse.
The species experimented with, were _Campanula persicifolia_, _Hyssopus officinalis_, _Lobelia syphilitica_, _Lychnis chalcedonica_, _Polemonium dissectum_, _Salvia sylvestris_ and some others.