lychnis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lychnis
1595–1605; < Latin < Greek lychnís red flower, akin to lýchnos lamp
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The scarlet lychnis, popularly nicknamed the "great candlestick," was commonly said to be lighted up for his day.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Amid festuca and other tufted grasses twinkled the purple lychnis, and the white star of the chickweed; and, not without its pleasing associations, I recognised a solitary hesperis—the Arctic representative of the wallflowers of home.”
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
The pink lychnis or ragged robin grows among the grasses; the iris flowers higher on the shore.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
Petal formed by the two lobes of lychnis without the retired fringe.
From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by John Ruskin
In the lychnis of the high Alps, the red and white have a kind of sugary bloom, as rich as it is delicate.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by John Ruskin
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