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Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers
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immortelle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immortelle is another word for the plant everlasting and can also refer specifically to plants of the genera: Helichrysum (Africa, Madagascar, Australasia, Eurasia) Helichrysum arenarium Xeranthemum (Southern Europe) Erythrina (tropical and subtropical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. --Ps. xc. 2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flower which preserves its shape and color after being dried," 1832, from French fem. of immortel "undying" (see immortal ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere [syn: Xeranthemum annuum ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
Usage examples of immortelle.
He hung the walls and the ceiling with an extraordinary stuff which he had in the piece, and which he believed to be from Utrecht, a satin background with golden immortelles, and velevt auriculas.
When I find it I shall shed some tears on it, and stack up some bouquets and immortelles, and cart away from it some gravel whereby to remember that howsoever blotted by crime their lives may have been, these ruffians did one just deed, at any rate, albeit it was not warranted by the strict letter of the law.
Cocoa trees grew in the shade of the immortelles, coffee in the shade of the cocoa, and the hills were covered with tonka bean.