EVERLASTING FLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does everlasting flower mean? 

• EVERLASTING FLOWER (noun)
  The noun EVERLASTING FLOWER has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

  Familiarity information: EVERLASTING FLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERLASTING FLOWER (noun)

Meaning:

Any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

everlasting; everlasting flower

Hypernyms ("everlasting flower" is a kind of...):

composite; composite plant (considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "everlasting flower"):

Acroclinium roseum; pink paper daisy; pink-and-white everlasting (flower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers; grown for drying)

Anaphalis margaritacea; cottonweed; pearly everlasting (American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts)

cudweed (any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color)

golden everlasting; Helichrysum bracteatum; strawflower; yellow paper daisy (Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers)

strawflower (any of various plants of the genus Helipterum)

cascade everlasting; Helichrysum secundiflorum; Ozothamnus secundiflorus (shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum)

Helipterum manglesii; rhodanthe; Rhodanthe manglesii; Swan River everlasting (Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum)

immortelle; Xeranthemum annuum (mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere)

Holonyms ("everlasting flower" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)