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Armeria
(gcide) | Armeria \Armeria\ n.
1. 1 a genus of shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen
perennials.
Syn: genus Armeria.
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armeria
(wn) | Armeria
n 1: shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials
[syn: Armeria, genus Armeria] |
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Armeria vulgaris
(gcide) | Gillyflower \Gil"ly*flow`er\, n. [OE. gilofre, gilofer, clove,
OF. girofre, girofle, F. girofle: cf. F. girofl['e]e
gillyflower, fr. girofle, Gr. ? clove tree; ? nut + ? leaf,
akin to E. foliage. Cf. Caryophyllus, July-flower.]
[Written also gilliflower.] (Bot.)
1. A name given by old writers to the clove pink ({Dianthus
Caryophyllus}) but now to the common stock ({Matthiola
incana}), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant
blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
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2. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red
color, and having a large core.
Clove gillyflower, the clove pink.
Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin ({Lychnis
Flos-cuculi}).
Queen's gillyflower, or Winter gillyflower, damewort.
Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri).
Water gillyflower, the water violet.
[1913 Webster]Lady's cushion \La"dy's cush"ion\, (Bot.)
An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift ({Armeria
vulgaris}).
[1913 Webster]Thrift \Thrift\ (thr[i^]ft), n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See
Thrive.]
1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in
regard to property; frugality.
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The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove
very good husbands. --Spenser.
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2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property;
increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift
is gone full clean." --Chaucer.
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I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak.
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3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
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4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the
genera Statice and Armeria.
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Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called
sea pink.
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Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
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armeria
(wn) | Armeria
n 1: shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials
[syn: Armeria, genus Armeria] |
armeria maritima
(wn) | Armeria maritima
n 1: tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate
zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover [syn: {cliff
rose}, sea pink, Armeria maritima] |
genus armeria
(wn) | genus Armeria
n 1: shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials
[syn: Armeria, genus Armeria] |
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