dusty miller

American  

noun

1. Botany.

   1. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence.

   2. rose campion.

2. Angling. a type of artificial fly used chiefly for trout and salmon.

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dusty miller British  

noun

1. Also called: snow-in-summer. a caryophyllaceous plant, Cerastium tomentosum, of SE Europe and Asia, having white flowers and downy stems and leaves: cultivated as a rock plant

2. a plant, Artemisia stelleriana, of NE Asia and E North America, having small yellow flower heads and downy stems and leaves: family Asteraceae (composites)

3. any of various other downy plants, such as the rose campion

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Etymology

Origin of dusty miller

First recorded in 1815–25

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Example Sentences

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dusty miller

Here, they can wander among scarecrows and jack-o’-lanterns, investigate a Victorian playhouse, pot up a ghostly-looking dusty miller plant to take home and put on a show with insect and owl puppets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller; I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Margaret wrote a letter, Sealed it with her finger, Threw it in the dam For the dusty miller.

From Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse by David Cory

Among foliage plants such things as coleus, dusty miller, begonia, and some geraniums are adaptable.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

If the temperature ranges from 35° to 70°, averaging about 55°, azaleas, daisies, carnations, candytuft, alyssum, dusty miller, chrysanthemums, cinerarias, camellias, daphnes, geraniums, petunias, violets, primroses, and verbenas make especially good growths.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett

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