Definitions for phlox

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Spelling: [floks]

IPA: /flɒks/

Phlox is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in phlox (hlopx).

Definitions for phlox

noun

1. any plant of the genus Phlox, of North America, certain species of which are cultivated for their showy flowers of various colors. Compare phlox family.
2. the flower of this plant.

Origin of phlox

1595-1605; Medieval Latin, special use of Latin phlox Greek phlóx a flame-colored plant, literally, flame. See phlegm, Examples for phlox

This is the zone of rhododendron, shushula, phlox, and painted brush.

To phlox, the novelist, she was always conscientiously brilliant.

She was flying near a piazza where there were some phlox plants.

phlox Drummondii is an old favorite that holds its own against any of the new-comers.

I have found primroses, phlox, and mertensia on the summit of Long's Peak.

On June 10th, carnations, phlox, and Eschscholtzia were in full bloom.

This belongs to the Polemoniace family, and is the phlox Cspitosa.

A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her.

Tall snapdragons and lilies and sweet-williams and phlox in the garden-beds.

I have, too, some of the fine varieties of "phlox Drummondi."