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London pride

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noun

  1. a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There were banks of flowers, and sidewalks where the London pride grew, and water, and great trees with hollows in them where the water lodged.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand

London pride is common enough, but I like it and grow it.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Barry Pain

But the mail is rattling along, to the music of the guard's horn and the quadrupedant sound of the horses, heedless alike of local verjuice and of London pride.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

It had a mixed border of forget-me-not and London pride.

From White Lilac; or the Queen of the May by Amy Walton

They would show the stuff of London pride.

From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

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