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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any plant of the genus Silene [syn: silene, campion, catchfly]
2: mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone [syn: lychnis, catchfly]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1597 any of various plants (as of the genera Lychnis and Silene) of the pink family often with viscid stems

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) any plant of the genus Silene or Lychnis with a sticky stem.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Catchfly Catch"fly, n. (Bot.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Flybane.