Campion (redirected from Campions)

Cam·pi·on  (kmp-n), Thomas 1567-1620.

English poet and composer of songs for voice and lute.

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cam·pi·on  (kmp-n)

n.

Any of several plants of the genera Lychnis and Silene native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and having variously colored flowers with notched or fringed petals.

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campion

Noun

a red, pink, or white European wild flower [origin unknown]

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Noun

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campion - any plant of the genus Silene         catchfly, silene flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms genus Silene - large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly moss campion, Silene acaulis - tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America Silene caroliniana, wild pink - perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters Lychnis dioica, red bird's eye, red campion, Silene dioica - biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis evening lychnis, Lychnis alba, Silene latifolia, white campion, white cockle, bladder campion - bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis fire pink, Silene virginica - perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals bladder campion, Silene uniflora, Silene vulgaris - perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx