silene latifolia

Questions about silene latifolia

What does silene latifolia mean?

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

What is another word for silene latifolia?

Close synonyms include white campion, evening lychnis, white cockle, bladder campion, Lychnis alba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silene latifolia a common word?

silene latifolia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.