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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A perennial plant (Anaphalis margaritacea) in the composite family, having woolly, gray-green foliage and whitish flower heads that are often used in dried flower arrangements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) an American everlasting (
Anaphalis margaritacea ) having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly-white scarious involucres.
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- noun an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
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treeseed commented on the word pearly everlasting
Pearly Everlasting folk name of Anaphalis margaritacea of the Aster family
January 19, 2008