English > everlasting flower: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color. |
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| Synonym | everlasting |
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| Member of | Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family | plants with heads composed of many florets |
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| Narrower | Swan River everlasting, rhodanthe, Rhodanthe manglesii, Helipterum manglesii | Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads |
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| cascade everlasting, Ozothamnus secundiflorus, Helichrysum secundiflorum | shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays |
| cudweed | Any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color |
| immortelle, Xeranthemum annuum | Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers |
| pearly everlasting, cottonweed, Anaphalis margaritacea | An American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts |
| pink-and-white everlasting, pink paper daisy, Acroclinium roseum | flower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers |
| strawflower, golden everlasting, yellow paper daisy, Helichrysum bracteatum | Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold |
| strawflower | Any of various plants of the genus Helipterum |
| Broader | composite, composite plant | Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers |
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| Spanish | siempreviva |
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| Catalan | consolva, sempreviva |
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