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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere [syn: immortelle, Xeranthemum annuum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from feminine of immortel immortal, from Latin immortalis Date: 1832 everlasting 3

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a composite flower of papery texture retaining its shape and colour after being dried, esp. a helichrysum. Etymology: F, fem. of immortel IMMORTAL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Immortelle Im`mor*telle", n.; pl. Immortelles. [F. See Immortal.] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. [Fr.] Cudweed, everlasting, goldylocks.