white cockle

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswhite campionevening lychnisbladder campionSilene latifoliaLychnis alba

   Broadersilene

   Part ofgenus Silene

Questions about white cockle

What does white cockle mean?

white cockle 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 white cockle?

Close synonyms include white campion, evening lychnis, bladder campion, Silene latifolia, 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 white cockle a common word?

white cockle 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.