Campion

Word CAMPION
Character 7
Hyphenation cam pi on
Pronunciations /ˈkæmpiən/

Definitions and meanings of "Campion"

What do we mean by campion?

Any of several plants of the genera Lychnis and Silene native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and having variously colored flowers with notched or fringed petals. noun

The popular name of certain plants belonging to the genera Lychnis and Silene (which see). noun

A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. noun

A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. noun

A garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimson flowers. noun

Any flowering plant of the genus Lychnis. noun

Any flowering plant of the genus Silene. noun

Any plant of the genus Silene noun

Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.

Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.

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The word "campion" in example sentences

I used the red-flowered or day-campion, which is a perennial herb, and a smooth variety of the white evening-campion, which flowers as a rule in the first summer. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

Waist-high colonies of red campion alternate with leggy stalks of buttercup and bright eaves of flowering honeysuckle; dog roses sprinkle their pink, aromatic ladders from high hedge-tops. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It possesses more fascination than the similar but staid red campion. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A semicircle of pink moss campion smiles from a stone. posted by Deron Bauman in books, literature, quotes | * | 1 comment comments ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the parish lanes, sunlit banks of red campion, white stitchwort, bluebells and ferns are dusty from earth eroded by burrowing rabbits and stirred up by traffic. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There are 12 wild flower species in the ordinary playing field but in its first year the haven was home to 107 species, including scabious, white campion and bird's foot trefoil. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Granite bedrock and boulders – all encrusted with lichens – are lapped in clumps of white bladder campion and pink thrift, drifts of bluebells and patches of turf starred with vernal squill (the seaside bluebell). ❋ Virginia Spiers (2010)

Above the neck of land and its relics of ancient fortifications tower pillars and blocks of granite where yet more bluebells grow in cracks and gullies, with cushions of sea-pink and campion softening ledges above the sea. ❋ Virginia Spiers (2010)

The flowers are a deep magenta, both richer and brighter than red campion found elsewhere, and they stand bold and beautiful against the blue of the sea beyond. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Half-hidden among the golden masses are delicate pink flowers of fragile-looking ladies 'smock and in the drier grass a few feet away rise tall patches of red campion, the silvery down on the stems caught by the late afternoon sunshine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the rose campion is thick as thieves up there. ❋ Mariah Stewart (2010)

Cushions of thrift and bladder campion on old walls have faded, but purple spikes of betony and the white of yarrow and sea carrot enliven vegetation along the coastal path. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If she was such a campion of making sure all votes count, why id she wait until the math became tough for her to statr this whole MI & FL crusade. ❋ Unknown (2008)

First wild roses, first bladder campion, the later variety of yellow hawkweed now showing. ❋ Jhetley (2010)

White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have some campion that blooms in the spring, it did not bloom this year either. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mist swam into the deep green of my glade through the waving seaweed of nettles, goosegrass, pink campion, bluebells, grasses and ferns. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Sea holly, sea beet, sea campion, cliff samphire, sea spurge and the sea kale, which Lord Montagu is said to eat, all clambered about the shingle, sheltered in little driftwood alcoves, their colours accentuated against the pale silver of the pickled wood. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

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