phlox
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9.5
- noun
- /flɑks/
- US
:
flores de phlox
- Dooryards were ablaze with phlox, marigolds, hollyhocks, and delphinium.
- pink phlox
- purple phlox
- blue phlox
Examples
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Her garden had old-fashioned flowers, bright colored, a little wild: marigold, cosmos, foxglove, phlox.
Fiction book (2001) -
The clearing was pink with hairy phlox in full bloom.
Academic text (1991) -
Two species unique to the area seem to depend completely on the subulate phlox that grows there.
Academic text (1991) -
One morning when I was watering my garden, something mewed faintly under the phlox.
Fiction book (1997) -
The phlox, black-eyed Susans, echinacea, and even some Sweet William and straw flowers add bright splashes to the garden's green.
Blog text (2) -
It was to the gazebo that Julia made her way along the path between vine-covered trees and sprawling phlox when she hoped to write, or simply to think in peace.
Fiction book (1994) -
She could distinguish lilac and shattercane's scents from phlox and lambsquarter, the watery mint of first-growth clover.
Fiction book (1997) -
In bloom, Mrs. Bosh's apple tree is a flower as big as a house, a global field of flowers, a magnanimity embarrassing to the street's frugal borders of tulips, petunias, iris, gladioli, and phlox.
Fiction book (1995) -
On summer evenings, masses of phlox have a sweet, almost heady scent.
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Neatly organized patches of white and lavender phlox carpeted the ground.
Synonyms
A group of North American plants with bright, colorful garden flowers
Compounds
- US
A low, spreading plant with thin needle leaves and pink or white flowers used to cover the ground
- US
A low, spreading evergreen plant with small pink or white flowers used to cover the ground
A low plant with thin, green leaves and pink or white flowers used as a ground cover
- Specialized
A low plant that grows in flat mats with pale blue or lavender flowers on dry rocky ground
A group of mostly non-woody plants with bright, showy flowers found in mild climates
- Specialized
A low plant with thin evergreen leaves and pink or white flowers used as ground cover
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word phlox comes from the Greek phlox, meaning 'flame', so think of the English word 'flame' to remember these plants with bright, flame-like clusters of flowers.