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Balsamine

Balsamine \Bal"sam*ine\, n. [Cf. F. balsamine, fr. Gr. balsami`nh balsam plant.] (Bot.) The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.

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balsamine

n. A plant, the ''Impatiens balsamina'', or garden balsam.

Usage examples of "balsamine".

July flowers, and striped balsamine, singing birds and fluttering insects, full of extravagant beauty.

Easter Sunday and the glassy balsamines, and little mounds of pebbles where he deposited the lizards that he caught over and over again, inconsolable that none would stay and become his pet, but always eager and full of hope when he had captured a new one.