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phlox

(flŏks)

n. pl. phlox or phlox·es

Any of various North American plants of the genus Phlox, having opposite leaves and flowers with a variously colored salverform corolla.

[New Latin Phlox, genus name, coined by Carolus Linnaeus, from Latin phlox, a kind of plant bearing showy, odorless flowers, from Greek, flame, wallflower (wallflowers being so called because of their flamelike color); see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

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phlox

(flɒks)

n, pl phlox or phloxes

(Plants) any polemoniaceous plant of the chiefly North American genus Phlox: cultivated for their clusters of white, red, or purple flowers

[C18: via Latin from Greek: a plant of glowing colour, literally: flame]

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phlox

(flɒks)

n., pl. phlox, phlox•es.

any plant of the genus Phlox, of North America, certain species of which are cultivated for their flowers.

[1700–10; < New Latin; Latin: a flame-colored plant < Greek phlóx literally, flame]

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phlox - any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

genus Phlox - herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico

chickweed phlox, Phlox bifida, Phlox stellaria, sand phlox - low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States

dwarf phlox, moss phlox, mountain phlox, Phlox subulata, moss pink - low tufted perennial phlox with needlelike evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers; native to United States and widely cultivated as a ground cover

fringed pink, ground pink, Linanthus dianthiflorus, moss pink - low wiry-stemmed branching herb or southern California having fringed pink flowers

evening-snow, Linanthus dichotomus - small California annual with white flowers

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flogo

phlox

[flɒks] N (phlox or phloxes (pl)) → flox m

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