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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cross having four equal arms resembling arrowheads joined at the points.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A plant, Lychnis Chalcedonica. Also called
cross-of-Jerusalem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A Eurasian garden perennial (
Lychins chalcedonica ) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads. - noun A cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center. See illustration under
cross .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads
- noun a cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center
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