corn cockle
Alternative form of corncockle.

corncockle
Any of several species of flowering plants, of the genus Agrostemma, in the Caryophyllaceae family.

corncockles
plural of corncockle

cowbell
A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap.
A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper.
Misconstruction of bell cow.

cowbells
plural of cowbell

cowherb
Vaccaria hispanica, an annual herb with blue-grey waxy herbage and pale pink flowers, native to Eurasia.

cyphel
The houseleek.

gilly-flower
Alternative spelling of gillyflower.

gith
The corncockle.

grass pink
The flowering plant Dianthus plumarius.
The flowering plant Dianthus armeria.
Any of various flowering plants in the genus Orchidaceae.

gypsophila
Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers.

gypsophilas
plural of gypsophila

inkweed
A herbaceous perennial plant of species Phytolacca octandra.

jagged chickweed
A flowering plant of species Holosteum umbellatum, native to Europe.

knawel
A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially
A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially

knawels
plural of knawel

lessers
plural of lesser

lochia
Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.

moss campion
a campion of species Silene acaulis, in the family Caryophyllaceae.

mouse-ear
A type of small hawkweed native to Eurasia (mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum), commonly found on dry grasslands.
A plant of the genus Cerastium (mouse-eared chickweed).
A forget-me-not (genus Myosotis).

mouse-ears
plural of mouse-ear

nailwort
Whitlowwort (Paronychia spp.).
A shadflower (Draba verna).
A rue-leaved saxifrage (Saxifraga tridactylites).

nailworts
plural of nailwort

paronychia
An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.

paronychiae
plural of paronychia

paronychias
plural of paronychia

pearlwort
Any of several flowering plants that have flowers the shape and size of small pearls
in genus Sagina,
in genus Colobanthus

pearlwort spurrey
The plant Spergula morisonii.

pearlworts
plural of pearlwort

pickpurse
Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.

pickpurses
plural of pickpurse

pinks
plural of pink

pistillidia
plural of pistillidium

pulqueria
An establishment where pulque is sold.

pulquerias
plural of pulqueria

ragged robin
A type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.

red campion
A biennial or perennial plant native to northern and central Europe, of species Silene dioica, with pink or red flowers.

rose campion
The flowering plant Silene coronaria (syn. Lychnis coronaria).

sandwort
Any of several plants in the genera Arenaria, Minuartia, and Moehringia.

sandworts
plural of sandwort

sea campion
A flowering plant, Silene maritima.

sea chickweed
Synonym of sea heath (Frankenia laevis).
seabeach sandwort (Arenaria peploides/Honckenya peploides).

silene
a molecule containing a silicon atom which forms a double bond
an organosilene, a molecule containing a silicon atom doubly bonded to a carbon atom
a silicon analog of alkenes containing at least one silicon-silicon double bond.

silenes
plural of silene

silverling
Shekel or small silvern coin of little value.
Baccharis halimifolia, a shrub of the aster family.

silverlings
plural of silverling

sleepy catchfly
Silene antirrhina

snow-in-harvest
Cerastium tomentosum.

snow-in-summer
Any of very many unrelated plants having showy clusters of white flowers that bloom around summertime.

spergula
Any of the plants of the genus Spergula.

spergulas
plural of spergula

spurrey
Alternative form of spurry.

spurreys
plural of spurrey

spurries
plural of spurry

spurry
Any of several European annual herbs of the genus Spergula.

starry campion
The plant Silene stellata.

starwort
Any of several not closely related plants that have a star-shaped flowers or leaves, but especially members of the genus Stellaria.

starworts
plural of starwort

sticky catchfly
Any of several species of flowering plants in tribe Sileneae with sticky parts:
Any of several species of flowering plants in tribe Sileneae with sticky parts:
Any of several species of flowering plants in tribe Sileneae with sticky parts:
Any of several species of flowering plants in tribe Sileneae with sticky parts:
Any of several species of flowering plants in tribe Sileneae with sticky parts:

stitchwort
A kind of chickweed, Rabelera holostea.

stitchworts
plural of stitchwort

sweet william
A flowering plant, Dianthus barbatus, in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
Various dogfish, especially when sold as food.

sweet-william
Alternative spelling of sweet william.

tunica
Synonym of tunic (“garment”).
Synonym of tunic (“covering”).

tunicae
plural of tunica

tunicas
plural of tunica

vaccaria
Any pink of the genus Vaccaria.

vaccarias
plural of vaccaria

white campion
A flowering plant, Silene latifolia, in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa.

white snow
Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, snow.

whitesnow
Drymaria cordata, a sprawling plant native to Latin America and invasive in many other places.

windmill pink
common catchfly (Silene gallica)

bladderwort
Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans.

bladderworts
plural of bladderwort

butterworts
plural of butterwort

cobra lily
A carnivorous plant native to northern California and southern Oregon, Darlingtonia californica
Any plant in the genus Arisaema spread in eastern Asia, eastern Africa and eastern North America
The plant Chasmanthe aethiopica.

drosera
Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera.

droseras
plural of drosera

forked sundew
The sundew Drosera binata.

huntsman's cup
A species of pitcher plant found in North America (Sarracenia purpurea).

lustwort
The sundew.

nepenth
Alternative form of nepenthes.

nepenthe
Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”).

nepenthes
A drug mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (c. 8th century B.C.E.) as bringing relief from anxiety or grief; hence, any drug or substance seen as bringing welcome forgetfulness or relief.
A Southeast Asian carnivorous plant of the genus Nepenthes; a monkey cup or tropical pitcher plant.

nepenths
plural of nepenth.

northern pitcher plant
Synonym of huntsman's cup

pinguicula
Any of the genus Pinguicula of butterworts.

pinguiculas
plural of pinguicula

pitcher plant
Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora (in order Ericales); Nepenthes (in order Caryophyllales), or Cephalotus (in order Oxalidales) that have pitcher-like leaves or parts of leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.

pleiochasia
plural of pleiochasium

purple pitcher plant
A carnivorous pitcher plant native to much of Canada and parts of the eastern United States, of species Sarracenia purpurea.

sarracenia
Any of various pitcher plants of genus Sarracenia.

sarracenias
plural of sarracenia

sundew
Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.

sundews
plural of sundew

waterwheel plant
An endangered carnivorous aquatic plant, Aldrovanda vesiculosa, which is the sole extant species of the genus Aldrovanda.

waterwheels
plural of waterwheel

acheweed
Synonym of goutweed.

ammoniac
Of or relating to ammonia, or possessing its properties.