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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx [syn: bladder campion, Silene uniflora, Silene vulgaris]
2: bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis [syn: white campion, evening lychnis, white cockle, bladder campion, Silene latifolia, Lychnis alba]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1783 an Old World campion (Silene vulgaris syn. S. cucubalus) with an inflated calyx introduced into temperate North America
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Campion Cam"pi*on, n. [Prob. fr. L. campus field.] (Bot.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimson flowers.
