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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox; chiefly North American; cultivated for their clusters of flowers

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural phlox or phloxes) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a flower, from Greek, flame, wallflower Date: circa 1706 any of a genus (Phlox of the family Polemoniaceae, the phlox family) of American annual or perennial herbs that have red, purple, white, or variegated flowers, a salverform corolla with the stamens on its tube, and a 3-valved capsular fruit

Britannica Concise

Any of about 65 species of plants (genus Phlox), belonging to the family Polemoniaceae, admired both in gardens and in the wilds for their clustered heads of flowers. All species but one are native to N. America. Phlox is herbaceous, usually with oval or linear leaves; it has heads of massed tubular flowers with five flaring lobes. A few species are woody, but most are herbaceous annuals or perennials. Sizes range from the 5-ft-high (1.5-m) summer phlox (P. paniculata) to the 18-in.-high (45-cm) woodland perennial blue phlox (P. divaricata) to the low-creeping, freely branching, evergreen moss pink, or creeping phlox (P. subulata).

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any cultivated plant of the genus Phlox, with scented clusters of esp. white, blue, and red flowers. Etymology: L f. Gk phlox, the name of a plant (lit. flame)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Phlox Phlox, n. [L., a kind of flower, fr. Gr. ? flame, fr. ? to burn.] (Bot.) A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers. Phlox worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an American moth (Heliothis phloxiphaga). It is destructive to phloxes. Phlox subulata, the moss pink. See under Moss.