Lychnis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Lychnis (chilnsy).
1595-1605; Latin Greek lychnís red flower, akin to lýchnos lamp
One commentator on this passage has mistaken the lychnis flos cuculi, or cuckoo-flower for cuckoo-buds.
I formerly fancied that I observed female lychnis dioica seeded without pollen.
Campion, kam′pi-un, n. the common name of plants belonging to the genera lychnis and Silene.
They do not occur in male lychnis dioica, but next spring I will look to male holly flowers.
The scarlet lychnis Coronaria is said to be lighted up on his day, and was formerly called Candelabrum ingens.
lychnis, lik′nis, n. a genus of erect ornamental herbs of the pink family—campions or wall-flowers.
In the lychnis of the high Alps, the red and white have a kind of sugary bloom, as rich as it is delicate.
The Red Campion (lychnis diurna) is common on the banks of wayside ditches, as well as in copses and other moist and shady places.
lychnis (London Pride), scarlet; two and one-half feet; July.
Dianthus (carnation and pink) Gypsophila, lychnis and others, are garden plants.
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