Found 2 hits - Term: cineraria maritima, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dusty \dust"y\ du^st"y^, a. compar. dustier
du^st"i^~er; superl. dustiest
du^st"i^e^st. as. dystig. see dust.
1. filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to
dust.
1913 webster
and all our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death. --shak.
1913 webster
2. like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.
1913 webster
dusty miller bot., a plant cineraria maritima; -- so
called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
1913 webster
see also:
dustier dustiest dust dusty miller cineraria maritima
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cineraria maritima
n : stiff much-branched perennial of the mediterranean region
having very white woolly stems and leaves; sometimes
placed in genus cineraria syn: dusty miller, senecio
cineraria
see also:
dusty miller senecio cineraria
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